[XALANJ-2196] Unneeded BCEL classes in Xalan.jar (2 jar version)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7
• Component/s: Xalan
• Environment: All
• Xalan info: PatchAvailable
• Assignee: Sarah McNamara
• Reporter: Eric Everman
• Reviewer: Henry Zongaro
• Created: 09/Sep/05 05:24
• Updated: 16/Oct/06 21:03
• Resolved: 16/Oct/06 21:01

Description

The binary '2 jar' distribution of Xalan includes the BCEL classes in the xalan.jar. These classes are not required for Xalan, only for XMLTC. I marked this bug as 'major' because it prevents xalan 2.7 from being used under Oracle's OC4J J2EE web container, which relies on an older version of BCEL and will crash if the newer version is on the classpath.

Note that I was able to get the 2.7 version of xalan to work under OC4J by using a non-public portion of the ant build script to build the xalan.jar without BCEL.

This thread on the user's discussion list has slightly more information then this post:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-j-users&m=112597125332553

Sarah McNamara claims to have a patch available.

Thanks Much,
Eric Everman