exeption in thread main...

[haneo]

excuse me i have sent this email to SAX mailling site there is no activity in it !!

i have downloded sax2r2.jar and decompressed to c:and downloded the &quot;xercesImpl.jar&quot; from apache org (the xml parser) and extracting it to <JDK>/jre/lib/ext/
so i got many files and one of theme is <JDK>\jre\lib\ext\org\apache\xerces\parsers\SAXParser.class

i compile the MySAXApp.java exemple comming with sax2r2.jar file with success. but whencompiling with this comand as sayed in the site tutorial:

c:\>java -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser MySAXApp sample.xml
i got this error:
Exception in thread &quot;main&quot; java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/helpers/DefaultHandler
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)


can some body help ? where is the problem ?

i verified and THERE IS the file:
C:\jdk1.3.1_04\jre\lib\ext\org\xml\sax\helpersDefaultHandler.class

???!!!

 

[mackey333]

did you set the target? -Greg :-Q

 

[haneo]

mackey thanks very much for your post.
but excuse me i have not anderstand what you meen by &quot;target&quot; ?

 

[palbano]

>> and downloded the &quot;xercesImpl.jar&quot; from apache
>> org (the xml parser) and extracting it to

I dont't believe you are supposed to exract the files into JRE/lib/ext. At least I have never tried that. You just put the .jar file in it.

Hope this helps
-pete

 

[mackey333]

my fault for not expanding, i was short on time...some java programs require you to set the target (tell it which class the main object is found in) -Greg :-Q

 

[haneo]

i have just resolved my problem !
i had just add the classpath to my environnement

thanks for all