[Biojava-l] build error w/ JBuilder

[Ann Loraine]

> 
> Hmmm, are you trying to compile BioJava with both xml.jar (crimson)
> and xerces.jar on your classpath.  I wouldn't expect these to be
> compatible, since xml.jar includes the w3c DOM level 1 API, while
> Xerces-J provides level 2.  Since the big switch a few days back,
> the BioJava HEAD should now be compiled with xerces.jar -- there
> should be no need for xml.jar as well, and I'll remove it from the
> CVS repository soon.
> 
> If you use the latest version of the BioJava build tool, it will
> compile with xerces.jar rather than xml.jar.
> 
> Is there some particular reason why you need Sun's xml.jar instead
> of Xerces?  If this has created a clash, I'll have to look into ways
> of sorting things out.  But generally, Xerces offers pretty much
> everything that Crimson did, plus proper handling of XML namespaces
> (this is the main change in the SAX2 and DOM level 2 APIs).

The dp package in biojava-live/demos wants classes from Javasoft's
xml.jar.  So this is why I included it in my classpath.  

If I don't attempt to build the dp demo then all is well. 

-Ann


> 
> Let me know if there's any more trouble,
>   Thomas
> 
> PS. For people using the release-1_0-branch, this still uses the
>    old xml.jar.
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