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Different behavior calling the same library from Java main() vs from a JFace part [message #1142711]

Thu, 17 October 2013 16:17

Charles Li
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Registered: December 2009

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I created an Eclipse 4 RCP project with GUI. In one ViewPart I need to call a utility Java library I created (Apache Jena), but I experienced ClassCastException:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(DocumentBuilderFactory.java:121)
at java.util.XMLUtils.getLoadingDoc(XMLUtils.java:92)
at java.util.XMLUtils.load(XMLUtils.java:74)
at java.util.Properties.loadFromXML(Properties.java:868)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.util.Metadata.read(Metadata.java:76)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.util.Metadata.addMetadata(Metadata.java:54)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.util.Metadata.<init>(Metadata.java:48)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.JenaRuntime.<clinit>(JenaRuntime.java:34)
... 81 more

If I create a pure main() Java program in the same Eclipse 4 RCP project and call the same utility Java program, it execute successfully.

In the viewPart, I didn't even import any Apache Jena packages. Apparently the class loading were different in the two cases.

So how should I approach to resolve this ClassCastException?

Thanks a lot!

[Updated on: Thu, 17 October 2013 16:26]

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Re: Different behavior calling the same library from Java main() vs from a JFace part [message #1143499 is a reply to message #1142711]

Fri, 18 October 2013 04:16

Sopot Cela
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What part of the eclipse framework causes the cast? The stack trace there shows nothing meaningful regarding the role of the eclipse infrastructure.

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Re: Different behavior calling the same library from Java main() vs from a JFace part [message #1144023 is a reply to message #1143499]

Fri, 18 October 2013 11:40

Charles Li
Messages: 16
Registered: December 2009

Junior Member

Sorry, I didn't paste the full stack trace. Here it is. Thanks a lot!

!SESSION 2013-10-18 10:32:55.475 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.7.0_25i
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Framework arguments: -product my.ui.product -clearPersistedState
Command-line arguments: -product my.ui.product -data C:\workspace/../runtime-my.ui.product -dev file:C:/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/my.ui.product/dev.properties -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -consoleLog -clearPersistedState

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.event 4 0 2013-10-18 10:33:05.287
!MESSAGE Exception while dispatching event org.osgi.service.event.Event [topic=VIEWCOMMUNICATION/SELECTED/MODELROOT] to handler org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.di.UIEventObjectSupplier$UIEventHandler@38b8ea59
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.e4.core.di.InjectionException: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.MethodRequestor.execute(MethodRequestor.java:63)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.di.UIEventObjectSupplier$UIEventHandler$1.run(UIEventObjectSupplier.java:49)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.syncExec(Synchronizer.java:180)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.syncExec(Display.java:4688)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.E4Application$1.syncExec(E4Application.java:205)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.di.UIEventObjectSupplier$UIEventHandler.handleEvent(UIEventObjectSupplier.java:47)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventHandlerWrapper.handleEvent(EventHandlerWrapper.java:197)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventHandlerTracker.dispatchEvent(EventHandlerTracker.java:197)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventHandlerTracker.dispatchEvent(EventHandlerTracker.java:1)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:230)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.ListenerQueue.dispatchEventSynchronous(ListenerQueue.java:148)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventAdminImpl.dispatchEvent(EventAdminImpl.java:135)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventAdminImpl.sendEvent(EventAdminImpl.java:78)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.event.EventComponent.sendEvent(EventComponent.java:39)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.services.internal.events.EventBroker.send(EventBroker.java:80)
at my.ui.handlers.OpenHandler.execute(OpenHandler.java:46)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.MethodRequestor.execute(MethodRequestor.java:56)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.invokeUsingClass(InjectorImpl.java:243)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.invoke(InjectorImpl.java:224)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.contexts.ContextInjectionFactory.invoke(ContextInjectionFactory.java:132)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.commands.internal.HandlerServiceHandler.execute(HandlerServiceHandler.java:167)
at org.eclipse.core.commands.Command.executeWithChecks(Command.java:499)
at org.eclipse.core.commands.ParameterizedCommand.executeWithChecks(ParameterizedCommand.java:508)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.commands.internal.HandlerServiceImpl.executeHandler(HandlerServiceImpl.java:213)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.HandledContributionItem.executeItem(HandledContributionItem.java:850)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.HandledContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(HandledContributionItem.java:743)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.HandledContributionItem.access$7(HandledContributionItem.java:727)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.HandledContributionItem$4.handleEvent(HandledContributionItem.java:662)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1057)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4170)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3759)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1113)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:997)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:138)
at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.E4Application.start(E4Application.java:162)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:354)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:181)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:636)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:591)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1450)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1426)
Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.RDFReaderFImpl.<clinit>(RDFReaderFImpl.java:73)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.impl.ModelCom.<clinit>(ModelCom.java:54)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.ModelFactory.createDefaultModel(ModelFactory.java:140)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.vocabulary.OWL.<clinit>(OWL.java:36)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.sparql.graph.NodeConst.<clinit>(NodeConst.java:43)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.sparql.engine.optimizer.reorder.ReorderFixed.<clinit>(ReorderFixed.java:35)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.sparql.engine.optimizer.reorder.ReorderLib.fixed(ReorderLib.java:67)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.sys.SystemTDB.<clinit>(SystemTDB.java:192)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.TDB.<clinit>(TDB.java:90)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.setup.DatasetBuilderStd.<clinit>(DatasetBuilderStd.java:49)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.StoreConnection.make(StoreConnection.java:217)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.transaction.DatasetGraphTransaction.<init>(DatasetGraphTransaction.java:75)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.sys.TDBMaker._create(TDBMaker.java:57)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.sys.TDBMaker.createDatasetGraphTransaction(TDBMaker.java:45)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.TDBFactory._createDatasetGraph(TDBFactory.java:104)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.TDBFactory.createDatasetGraph(TDBFactory.java:73)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.TDBFactory.createDataset(TDBFactory.java:52)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.tdb.TDBFactory.createDataset(TDBFactory.java:48)
at my.api.myDAO.init(MyDAO.java:44)
at my.api.myDAO.<init>(MyDAO.java:35)
at my.ui.util.Utils.getMyDAO(Utils.java:104)
at my.ui.util.Utils.getRootRecords(Utils.java:117)
at my.ui.parts.TreeViewPart.eventReceived(TreeViewPart.java:108)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.MethodRequestor.execute(MethodRequestor.java:56)
... 53 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(DocumentBuilderFactory.java:121)
at java.util.XMLUtils.getLoadingDoc(XMLUtils.java:92)
at java.util.XMLUtils.load(XMLUtils.java:74)
at java.util.Properties.loadFromXML(Properties.java:868)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.util.Metadata.read(Metadata.java:76)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.util.Metadata.addMetadata(Metadata.java:54)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.util.Metadata.<init>(Metadata.java:48)
at com.hp.hpl.jena.JenaRuntime.<clinit>(JenaRuntime.java:34)
... 81 more

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Re: Different behavior calling the same library from Java main() vs from a JFace part [message #1144264 is a reply to message #1144023]

Fri, 18 October 2013 15:16

Charles Li
Messages: 16
Registered: December 2009

Junior Member

Problem not resolved yet, but more findings:

Within the command-line execution and the RCP GUI execution, I used "System.getProperties()" to list all system properties, and I found the following system property was set in the former but not in the latter, although I didn't do anything in either cases.

javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl

So I am trying to add the above system property to the latter, and I tried the following (each one by itself only) but none was successful (the ClassCastException still showed up):
- Run Configuration > Arguments: add "-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl" to "Program arguments.
- Run Configuration > Arguments: add "-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl" to "VM arguments.
- .product configuration > Configuration tab: add "javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory" and "org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl" as name/value under "Properties.

Please help! Thanks!

[Updated on: Fri, 18 October 2013 15:18]

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Re: Different behavior calling the same library from Java main() vs from a JFace part [message #1144531 is a reply to message #1144264]

Fri, 18 October 2013 19:38

Charles Li
Messages: 16
Registered: December 2009

Junior Member

More findings: whenever I call the utility Java library from within a method with dependency injection, the ClassCastException occurs; while the same call from any regular Java class/method without DI, it is successful.

It seems the call to the Java library uses a third-party open-source library, where it parses an XML config file - don't know if this helps with finding out what is wrong.

So my question is - is there anything unique about the Java execution environment with DI? Does it carry the XML parser that comes with the JDK? I am using Java 1.7.

Thanks a lot!

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Re: Different behavior calling the same library from Java main() vs from a JFace part [message #1145293 is a reply to message #1144531]

Sat, 19 October 2013 08:00

Sopot Cela
Messages: 569
Registered: December 2010

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Are the java class imports the same in both the cases?

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Re: Different behavior calling the same library from Java main() vs from a JFace part [message #1145299 is a reply to message #1144531]

Sat, 19 October 2013 08:03

Sopot Cela
Messages: 569
Registered: December 2010

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Charles Li wrote on Sat, 19 October 2013 01:38

More findings: whenever I call the utility Java library from within a method with dependency injection, the ClassCastException occurs; while the same call from any regular Java class/method without DI, it is successful.

It seems the call to the Java library uses a third-party open-source library, where it parses an XML config file - don't know if this helps with finding out what is wrong.

So my question is - is there anything unique about the Java execution environment with DI? Does it carry the XML parser that comes with the JDK? I am using Java 1.7.

Thanks a lot!

In the eclipse 4 case you should have javax.xml in your running config so it may get in your way of doing things.

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