[jdom-interest] ClassCastException

[kenk at boxerlearning.com]

> At 10:48 AM -0400 9/10/02, kenk at boxerlearning.com wrote:
> 
> >What I'd like to know is:
> >
> >1) Has this been officially reported as a bug in JDOM?
> >2) Does anyone know of any plans to address the problem?
> >3) Has anyone contacted the junit people about this bug?  It seems to me like
> >it's a bug in junit, as well.
> >
> 
> This is neither a bug in JDOM nor a bug in JUnit. It is arguably a 
> bug in your code; but really what it really is is a bug in the design 
> of Java's class loading mechanism. There's not a whole hell of a lot 
> either JDOM or JUnit can do about this. Sorry :-(

How is it a bug in my code?  Is there a way I can write code so that I could 
get this to work?  I see that JDOM.SAXBuilder has constructors where I can 
specify the saxDriverClass.  Could using one of those solve this problem?


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