| Problem using Saxon in a Plugin project [message #267325] |
Tue, 17 August 2004 10:42  |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
I'm using Saxon in one of my plugins and have a problem with closing
Eclipse. I get the following error:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError: Provider
net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl could not be instantiated:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.ui.XMLMemento.save(XMLMemento.java:410)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.saveMementoToFile(Workbenc h.java:1415)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$6(Workbench.java:14 09)
It seems that Eclipse is using Saxon for transforming the XML memento of its
workspace. If I don't export the saxon JAR in my project, the shutdown of
Eclipse works, but my plugin not ;)
If I add saxon as a plugin dependency, I get the error above. Any idea if
such library conflicts are possible and how to resolve them?
TIA,
Thorsten
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| Re: Problem using Saxon in a Plugin project [message #267396 is a reply to message #267325] |
Tue, 17 August 2004 16:43  |
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Originally posted by: chaves.nospam.inf.ufsc.br.ok
The following link states that the javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory
property defines which implementation is to be used. If the property is
not specified, the one provided by the platform (Xalan on Sun's JRE) will
be used.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/ TransformerFactory.html
Saxon sets itself as being "the" transformer factory implementation, and
this is why Eclipse ends up using it.
Class loading causes plug-ins to be automatically activated. During
shutdown, all plug-ins are automatically stopped by pre-requisite order.
After a plug-in has been automatically stopped, it it cannot be restarted
by this mechanism, and classloading fails.
We suggest the following workaround (which does not work on 2.1):
- provide the Saxon code as a completely separate plug-in, with an OSGi
manifest (first page of the plug-in creation wizard)
- in the PDE plug-in manifest editor, Runtime tab, set the activation rule
to not activate the plug-in. This will disable auto-activation for Saxon
plug-in, which is not needed anyway (since it is not an actual Eclipse
plug-in, just a wrapper)
If you need to run on 2.1 (do you?), the workaround is slightly different.
We will be curious whether this solves your problem.
Rafael
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| Re: Problem using Saxon in a Plugin project [message #267483 is a reply to message #267396] |
Wed, 18 August 2004 05:22 |
| Eclipse User |
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Hi Rafael,
> We suggest the following workaround (which does not work on 2.1):
> - provide the Saxon code as a completely separate plug-in, with an OSGi
> manifest (first page of the plug-in creation wizard)
> - in the PDE plug-in manifest editor, Runtime tab, set the activation rule
> to not activate the plug-in. This will disable auto-activation for Saxon
> plug-in, which is not needed anyway (since it is not an actual Eclipse
> plug-in, just a wrapper)
I tried this solution, but the plugin which depends on the newly created
Saxon plugin cannot find the Saxon classes. I changed the following things:
1. Created a Saxon-Plugin
2. Updated my plugin to use only 3.0 functionality, removed JARs from my
plugin and added plugin dependency to Saxon plugin
The Saxon-Plugin-Manifest looks like this:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-Name: Saxon Plug-in
Bundle-SymbolicName: Saxon
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0
Bundle-Vendor: Darmstadt University of Technology
Bundle-Localization: plugin
Eclipse-AutoStart: false
Bundle-ClassPath: saxon8.jar,saxon8-jdom.jar,saxon8-sql.jar,saxpath.jar
The Saxon-Plugin-Plugin.xml is quite empty:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.0"?>
<plugin>
</plugin>
However, the first time I use a Saxon in my plugin, I get the following
error:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/sf/saxon/xpath/XPathException
at de.tud.xirc.db.ResourceManager.<init>(ResourceManager.java:102)
at ...
Any ideas what's going wrong?
Thanks,
Thorsten
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