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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@bost.de> on 2000/05/31 14:55:40 UTC
[PATCH] Catch some more exceptions when JAXP is not present
>>>>> "EM" == Erik Meade <em...@geekfarm.org> writes:
EM> I was cleaning up my classpath ( i.e. setting it over :)), and
EM> noticed that if you don't have the SAX parser.jar in your class
EM> path you get NullPointerException instead of a
EM> NoClassDefFoundError.
This seems to depend on the JDK, on Linux (Blackdown's 1.2.2RC4) I get
the NoClassDefFoundError in either case - but this one remains
uncaught.
The appended patch catches the NoClassDefFoundError as well as
NullPointerException and emits a more meaningful error message. BTW
the NoClassDefFoundError results from the ClassLoader loading
ProjectHelper not from the Class.forName in the try block.
I had to patch BuildException to accept Errors as well as Exceptions
as cause.
Stefan
Re: [PATCH] Catch some more exceptions when JAXP is not present
Posted by Erik Meade <em...@geekfarm.org>.
Stefan,
Your patch does the trick.
Erik Meade
At 02:55 PM 5/31/2000 +0200, you wrote:
> >>>>> "EM" == Erik Meade <em...@geekfarm.org> writes:
>
> EM> I was cleaning up my classpath ( i.e. setting it over :)), and
> EM> noticed that if you don't have the SAX parser.jar in your class
> EM> path you get NullPointerException instead of a
> EM> NoClassDefFoundError.
>
>This seems to depend on the JDK, on Linux (Blackdown's 1.2.2RC4) I get
>the NoClassDefFoundError in either case - but this one remains
>uncaught.
>
>The appended patch catches the NoClassDefFoundError as well as
>NullPointerException and emits a more meaningful error message. BTW
>the NoClassDefFoundError results from the ClassLoader loading
>ProjectHelper not from the Class.forName in the try block.
>
>I had to patch BuildException to accept Errors as well as Exceptions
>as cause.
>
>Stefan
>