XSLT Transformation Cross-platform issue

Question

Hi,
Let's go straight to the point: the following code works fine on a Windows system, but gives me a ClassNotFoundException zibog.context.XSLAccessPoint when run on a Mac OS X system. The XSL Stylesheet uses Xalan to call static methods from this class.
Here's the code:
         OutputManager.getInstance().writeWorkflowLog(System.currentTimeMillis(), WORKFLOW_MESSAGE);
    // Get a Transformer Factory
         TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
         javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer = null;
    // Get the extractor XSL script as a stream
         InputStream extractorAsStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(XSL_EXTRACTOR_PATH);
          File temp = null;
     // Create own FileOutputStream for the transformer to be able
     // to close it for file suppression.
          FileOutputStream outputStream = null;
          try {
     // Create the transformer with the extractor stream
               transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(
                                        new StreamSource(extractorAsStream));
               temp = new File(TEMP_FILE);
               temp.createNewFile();
               outputStream = new FileOutputStream(temp);
               OutputManager.getInstance().writeDebugLog(System.currentTimeMillis(), transformer.getClass().toString() + " - " + transformer.toString());
     // Run the extractor script
               transformer.transform(new StreamSource(xmlFilePath),
                                          new StreamResult(outputStream));
          } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
               throw new ExtractorException(TRANSFORMER_CREATION_ERROR_MESSAGE +
                                                  e.getMessage());
          } catch (IOException e) {
               throw new ExtractorException(IO_ERROR_MESSAGE + e.getMessage());
          } catch (TransformerException e) {
               throw new ExtractorException(TRANSFORMATION_ERROR_MESSAGE +
                                                  e.getMessage());
          } finally {
               if(temp != null) {
                    if(outputStream != null) {
                         try {
                              outputStream.close();
                         } catch (IOException e) {
                    temp.delete();
          }It fails at the transformation line, and I don't understand why it gives me this error on a mac. In fact, it works fine on a mac if a run it with an Ant script, for example, but it fails when I run it using the Eclipse plug-in I developped with. But I'm POSITIVELY sure that no code in my plug-in can cause that, so maybe the Mac Eclipse does things differently and messes up with the transformation...
Any help?
Thanks.

Answer 1

After a big load of tests and things, we found that the Mac OS X Eclipse used a different Xalan.jar than the one that was given with my plug-in, and that it messed up with the transformation. With tried things, without success, then finally we installed the last stable release of Eclipse 3.2 for Mac OS X, and it worked fine, despite always using this different xalan.jar.
I really hate it when problems solve themselves like that, because I can't guess what didn't work. I can only suppose that it was a wrong way of handling this Jar by the previous releases of Eclipse.
Well, that was for your information, thanks for the suggestions!
Thomas