Error with JasperReports in Eclipse RCP applicatin

[mknix]

I have an Eclipse RCP application that contains several plug-ins.  When I try to create a report using Jasper Reports 1.2.5 version, I get the following error:

javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError: Provider org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl not found

I have tried setting the class loader to be the class loader of my main plug-in before running the report, but this has not made a difference.

Is the class it cannot find supposed to be in the JasperReports jar file?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mary Kathryn Nix

 

[mknix]

Whether or not this is the "right" way to do it, I finally fixed this problem by manually setting the parser to use before generating the report.  So before I generate the report I save off the current parser settings before resetting them.  Then after I run the report I restore them. 

// Save off current parser settings

// Force the parser to use

System.setProperty("javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory","org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl");

System.setProperty("javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory","org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl");

System.setProperty("javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory","org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl");

// Run the report

// Restore the prior parser settings.

This keeps me from getting the parser not found error because I do have this parser in my classpath.

Maybe this will help someone in the future.

Mary Kathryn Nix