Taglibs: Taglibs Standard 1.1.0-B1 Tomcat: 5.0.14 J2SE: 1.4.1_02 Xalan: 2.5.2 or whatever version comes with my JRE It seems that the class mentioned in the summary derives from org.apache.xpath.VariableStack, which is part of Xalan. This class, however, is declared as final in both tested Xalan versions and XPathUtil thus fails to load. This renders all xml jstl tags unusable. Steps to reproduce: 1) Add any xml jstl tag with a select attribute to a jsp page. 2) Try to view the page. A ServletException as the result of a ValidationError will occur. Origin comes down to the place where XPathUtil is instantiated. Proposed solution: If no component tries to cast the JstlVariableStack to a VariableStack, aggregation instead of derivation would suffice. Otherwise a change to Xalan might be required.
Ok, seems to me like I was wrong. Anyone knows how to prevent java from loading the Xalan version in rt.jar? Propose RESOLVED/INVALID
As stated in the README file of Taglibs Standard 1.1.0-B1: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES This version of the Standard Tag Library has the following runtime dependencies: 1. Dependencies provided by the JSP 2.0 container: - Servlet 2.4 - JSP 2.0 2. Dependencies provided in newer J2SEs (1.4.2 and higher) - JAXP 1.2 - Xalan 2.5 - JDBC Standard Extension 2.0 Since all of the dependencies in (2) are included in Sun's distribution of J2SE 1.4.2 (and higher), this is therefore the J2SE version of choice to use the standard tag library. If the java platform under which you run your JSP container does not provide these dependencies, they must be made available either globally to all web-applications by your container, or individually within the WEB-INF/lib directory of your web-application. For convenience, these jar files have been included in directory lib/old-dependencies of this distribution (assuming the build process of this distribution included them). If you would like to download these jar files yourself, instructions on where you can get them are included below. --- JAXP 1.2 The JAXP 1.2 jar files can be obtained in the Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) available at http://java.sun.com/products/jwsdp. - jaxp-api.jar - dom.jar - sax.jar - xercesImpl.jar --- Xalan 2.5 The Xalan jar file can be obtained in the Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) available at http://java.sun.com/products/jwsdp, as well as from Apache at http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j. - xalan.jar Please note that if you use Sun's distribution of J2SE 1.4.1, you must supersede the version of xalan.jar provided by the J2SE with version 2.5 or higher of Xalan. This newer version of xalan.jar must then be made available through the endorsed dirs mechanism.