[Opensource] Problem on startup Expresso5.0 on Win2000

[Michael Rimov]

At 11:01 AM 11/12/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Mike, hi Rick,
>
>I downloaded the binary version of Expresso 5.0 because i already have a 
>tomcat4 running on my local NT machine and on the Win2k server.
>About the version of the JRE/JDK which Rick mentioned. On my NT machine I 
>use jdk1.3. On the server I use jdk1.3.1_01 which works fine for Expresso 
>4.02. Because of the trouble I tried also j2sdk1.4.1_01 on the server. 
>This version gave me the following error report for both Expresso 4.02 and 
>5.0: see (Attachement\Apache Tomcat-4_0_1 - Error report.htm;)
>The full Error report of the Expresso 5.0 with jdk1.3.1_01:see ( 
>Attachement\Error report to user.htm;)
>
>What made me a little bit confusing is the fact, that the expresso relies 
>only on the settings in the wrapper.properties file. It doesn't matter 
>what the JAVA_HOME System Variable is set (jdk1.3.1_01 or j2sdk1.4.1_01).
>
>Just for information. I use a mysql database and on the Win2k server i 
>installed service packe3.
>
>Hope we can sort my problem.
>Kindly regards,
>Philipp

AHA, thanks for the full stack trace.  The problem is updated 
Xerces.  Replace the one that comes with Tomcat with the one that comes 
with Expresso, and you should be set.  Also make sure that the system 
classpath isn't putting any others instances of Xerces in there.

HTH!
                                                 -Mike