[Biojava-l] web service problems

[Thomas Down]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:27:48PM +0000, Matthew Pocock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some problems with biojava in a web service I wrote. I'm 
> using biojava.jar and bj-ensembl.jar along with my own jsp and servlets. 
> It used to work (before xmas), but now I get an exception: 
> "NoSuchFieldError: naturalOrder". This is a field in Location (in 
> biojava.jar), and the calling code is EnsemblTranscript (in 
> bj-ensembl.jar). I can build both jars from scratch using ant, so javac 
> thinks the field exists. I can javap the Location interface (using the 
> biojava.jar in the deployed .war) and naturalOrder appears, so it realy 
> should be available.

I've just experienced this very same probelm, also using
biojava-ensembl, from a simple command-line script, so there's
definitely no container-specific classloading issues.  I was
able to fix it by doing a clean build of biojava-ensembl.

Any chance of version skew in your case?

   Thomas.