[jdom-interest] Iterator class conflict

[Ian Lea]

The README.txt file in the top level of the distribution
explains about building for java 1.1 and java 1.2+.



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Ian.
ian.lea at blackwell.co.uk


"Laymon, Marc A (CRD)" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have downloaded beta 7 of the jdom package.  I am using ant to try
> to compile a collegue's code.  I put the directory with
> all the beta 7 jdom jars in my build classpath.  However, when
> javac tries to compile a file, it gives the following error:
> 
> [javac] /home/projects/xml/XMLConfig.java:277: incompatible types
>     [javac] found   : com.sun.java.util.collections.Iterator
>     [javac] required: java.util.Iterator
>     [javac]     Iterator variables = root.getChildren ( "variable" ).iterator () ;
> 
> This is the line in context:
> 
>     protected static Map parseVariablesSection ( Element root )
>     {
>         Map ret = new HashMap () ;
>         Map var = null ;
> 
>         Iterator variables = root.getChildren ( "variable" ).iterator () ;
> 
> where Element is a jdom.org.Element.
> 
> The conflict appears to be from the class com.sun.java.util.collections.Iterator
> in collections.jar which comes with the jdom beta 7 distribution.
> I tried removing the collections.jar from the jdom/lib directory, but then
> I get the error "file com/sun/java/util/collections/List.class not found" from:
> 
>         Element root = new Element( "CBEConfiguration" ) ;
>         Document doc = new Document( root ) ;
> 
> where Element and Document are both from package jdom.org.
> (I grep'd through all the jdom java files for "import.*sun" and did not
> get any matches.
> 
> If I change the classpath in ant to use an older version of jdom.jar,
> everything is fine.
> 
> How do I resolve the conflict between the two versions of Iterator
> when using beta 7 of jdom ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Marc Laymon