[jdom-interest] java.lang.NoSuchMethodError when using tomcat

[Philipp Zuderell]

Hi all,

I have written an application that parses an XML-file using jdom and
DOMBuilder.
When I changed the application into a Servlet, I get the following error
Message when I try to build the document from the XML-file:


Error: 500
Location: /examples/servlet/ResponseCreator
Internal Servlet Error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.w3c.dom.DocumentType: method
getPublicId()Ljava/lang/String; not found
 at org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder.buildTree(DOMBuilder.java, Compiled Code)
 at org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder.buildTree(DOMBuilder.java, Compiled Code)
 at org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder.build(DOMBuilder.java:191)
 at org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder.build(DOMBuilder.java:216)
 at HandleXML.XMLCreator(HandleXML.java:52)
 at ResponseCreator.doPost(ResponseCreator.java:43)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
 at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java,
Compiled Code)
 at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:597)

 at
org.apache.tomcat.servlets.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:257)

 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
 at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java,
Compiled Code)
 at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:559)
 at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpConnectionHandler.java:160)

 at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java:338)

 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


I have no clue what the error might be as the same code works fine when
run as an application.
I use jdom beta4 (tried beta5, too) and tomcat 3.1 embedded with apache
1.3.14.

Thanks for reading this, any help is appreciated.

Philipp