[jdom-interest] Unable to build JDOM 1.0beta9-dev [2002]

[Laurent Bihanic]

Matt Futterman wrote:
> I have been trying to build the latest source from CVS but get
> the errors shown below.
> -----------------------------------------------
> ;.\lib\jaxp.jar;.\lib\jaxen-core.jar;.\lib\jaxen-jdom.jar;.\lib\saxpath.jar;.\lib\collections.jar;C:\jdk1.1.8\lib\classes.zip

Regardless what error you may get later on, there's already a problem here: 
the Jaxen XPath engine JARs provided with JDOM require JDK 1.2 or higher.

To compile the XPath part of JDOM with JDK 1.1.x, you first need to get a 
distribution of Jaxen (1.0 FCS) and rebuild it with the collections.jar in the 
classpath (the build.xml should detect the presence of JDK 1.1 collections and 
automatically make use of them).

> C:\cvs\jdom\build\src\org\jdom\input\JDOMParseException.java:91: Bla
> nk final variable 'partialDocument' may not have been initialized. It
> must be as
> signed a value in an initializer, or in every constructor.
>     [javac]     public JDOMParseException(String message, Throwable
> cause)  {

This constructor is valid as it calls the other constructor which initialises 
partialDocument.
But if this causes problems with JDK 1.1, you can safely make partialDocument 
not 'final'.

Laurent