please open a bug report. (http://issues.apache.org/jira)

thanks,
dims

--- "John G. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On the JBoss lists, there are various posts regarding class cast exceptions 
> when using Axis (1.1). I think I've seen a few such posts on Tomcat lists 
> as well.
> 
> In its default setup, JBoss loads JAXP with a different classloader from 
> the one used by a web app with no special directives regarding 
> classloading. There are ways to change the JBoss classloading strategy for 
> a particular ear or war, but many of these solutions are not  very helpful 
> if one can't change the server configuration as well.
> 
> I have noticed that there are some bits of JAXP in the Axis jaxrpc.jar. 
> Specifically:
> 
>       javax/xml/transform/dom/DOMSource.class
>       javax/xml/transform/sax/SAXSource.class
>       javax/xml/transform/Source.class
>       javax/xml/transform/stream/StreamSource.class
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> (1) Why are these in here? Wouldn't a user be expected to load his own JAXP 
> classes and expect Axis to depend on that?
> 
> (2) I made a new version of Axis's jaxrpc.jar without these items, so that 
> Axis just uses the JAXP items that are available as part of normal JBoss 
> startup. It seems to eliminate the typical class cast exceptions. Is there 
> anything wrong with doing this?
> 
>       John
> 


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