[jdom-interest] JDOM can't find JAXP, or even Xerces...

[Gonzalez, Lorenzo]

I've read the mailing list archive messges about getting JDOM to use
JAXP, and it seems to work for other people!

But no matter how I try, I just can't get JDOM (1.0b6) to use JAXP, as
it's claimed to, by default!

I have tried placing the JAXP jars in my system classpath, in my
servlet/web-app extensions directory (WEB-INF/lib), added directly to
the web-app's classpath... nothing works - JDOM always blows up, looking
for Xerces.  :-(

My servlet engine is Resin, and it finds everything else just fine this
way, aelfred, our own internal libs, the Oracle JDBC drivers, even the
DB2 JDBC drivers, which must for some reason be on the system classpath,
and not in the web-app extensions dir.

In fact, JDOM also won't find Xerces, unless it's on the system
classpath - the web-app lib approach fails for JDOM/Xerces! If even that
could be fixed, I'd be in better shape!  The staging/production admins
here are loath to add jars to the system classpath, and I'm with them on
that opinion.

Any help? (The top of the exception trace is below...)

Thanks!

Lorenzo Gonzalez
Covisint, Construct Team

javax.servlet.ServletException: org.jdom.JDOMException: Error in
building: SAX2 driver class org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser not
found at com.covisint.xml.rpc.RPCServlet.init(RPCServlet.java:65)