Wls 6.0sp1, xerces 1.1

Question

I'm in the process of upgrading to weblogic 6.0sp1 from 5.1. My app uses
xerces 1.1 for all xml parsing. My original configuration was jbuilder 4.0,
weblogic 5.1, jdk1.2.2 and xerces 1.1. This configuration worked and all
xml parsed fine. After upgrading to wls 6.0 my new configuration is jb4,
wls 6.0, xerces 1.1 and jdk130. In this configuration i always get
exceptions when i call the parse method on DOMParser. I've tried swapping
out jdk's, and using the xerces that is bundled with wls 6.0 but have had no
success. Any help would be much appreciated.
Below are some code snippets to indicate my usage of DOMParser:
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;
import org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl;
import org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat;
import org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
public class XMLModel {
try {
String loadXmlFileName = new String("whatever.xml");
if(useDOM) {
// If possible, parse the file
DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
if (loadXmlFileName != null) {
parser.parse(loadXmlFileName);
Document loadDoc = parser.getDocument();
Document loadDoc = XMLParser.parse(loadXmlFileName);
catch (Exception e) {
Log.writeError(e);
return;
Again...This worked with jdk1.2.2, wls 5.1, xerces 1.1....but does not
with jdk130, wls 6.0, xerces 1.1 (or xerces 1.2 bundled with wls 6).
Thanks for any help.
By the way...the exception i get indicates the file can not be found. But i
create an instance of File and ensure that i can read it before calling
parse on the DOMParser.

Answer 1

Is there any plan to support backward compatibility in future ?
Due to above restriction we have to use lowest common BEA version.
I guess BEA must learn how real world application work. I guess compatability
should be like ORACLE RDBMS.
Thanks
Kumar Allamraju <[email protected]> wrote:
No.
As of 6.0 release, the client & server should be on the same version.
Kumar
Rakesh wrote:
Hello,
Can my client running on WLS 5.1.0.9 can connect/work with applicationdeployed
on WLS 6.0.0.1 ?
Thanks