> Therefore my class 'URLConverter' is used by the generated binding code,
> and it must be present when the binding is compiled; but how can I tell
> the XJC compiler where I've put it??? It gives me a NoClassDefFoundError.
Technically, all you need to do is to make that class available to the
system class loader.
However, I realized that as you pointed out, this can be quite awkward.
> XJC xeems to have no options for setting its classpath. The classpath of
> the DOS shell from which I run XJC is ignored.
I think having the "-classpath" option just like javac would be the best
solution to this problem, but you are right that we don't have such an
option right now.
> I tried modifying the XJC.BAT script to set the -classpath option in the
> JAVA command that runs the binding compiler. Since THAT makes no
> difference, I assume XJC makes an internal ClassLoader and does NOT hang
> it under the system loader.
The problem is that when you run java with the "-jar" option, all the
"-classpath" option will be ignored. This is by design of java VM.
> Right now the only workaround that I know is to zip up my URLConverter
> and other classes, and install the zip as an extension (place it in the
> ext folder). This is not a long-term solution!
Right.
Another workaround is to use ant. When you define XJC task in Ant, you
can include your URLConverter in the classpath of <taskdef>.
See doc/ant.html for details.
regards,
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