[jdom-interest] Newbie classpath problem

[RM Barry]

I quote from the FAQ:  

I tried to use JDOM and get an error like this:  
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError  
 or
  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:  
org/xml/sax/SAXNotRecognizedException   
What's wrong?   
You need to ensure that the xerces.jar file supplied with the  
JDOM download  is in your classpath before any other XML classes, 
 such as those that come with  JAXP or Crimson. These other XML  
libraries, as well as older versions of Apache  Xerces, support DOM  
Level 1 and SAX 1.0, not the required DOM Level 2 and  SAX 2.0.  
The result is an exception being thrown. Check your classpath, and  
try  again. If the classpath looks OK, the problematic JAR might also 
 be hiding in the  system's standard extension directory  
(jre\lib\ext).   
I'm having this problem, and I tried to solve it by putting the  
xerces.jar file as  the first entry of my classpath, but no joy.   I'm  
using Forte4j community  edition as IDE, and this is the classpath I 
 specify for the compiler:  

C:\devel\jdom- 
b6\lib\xerces.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORTE4J\lib\patches\openide-  
compat.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORTE4J\lib\developer.jar;C:\DEVEL\FO
 RTE4J\lib\o  
penide.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORTE4J\lib\updater.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORT
 E4J\lib\ext\  
AbsoluteLayout.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORTE4J\lib\ext\icebrowserlitebe 
an.jar;C:\DE VEL\FORTE4J\lib\ext\javac.jar;C:\devel\jdom-  
b6\build\jdom.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORTE4J\lib\ext\jaxp.jar;C:\DEVEL
 \FORTE4J\  
lib\ext\jh.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORTE4J\lib\ext\parser.jar;C:\DEVEL\F 
ORTE4J\lib\  
ext\regexp.jar;C:\DEVEL\FORTE4J\lib\ext\servlet.jar;C:\JDK1.3\l
 ib\dt.jar;C:\ JDK1.3\lib\tools.jar;C:\devel;C:\devel\xmlrpc- 
java;C:\devel\xmlrpc-  
java.zip;C:\devel\HTTPClient.zip;C:\devel\xmlrpc- 
java\lib\openxml- 1.2.jar;C:\devel\xmlrpc-java\lib\xmlrpc- 
applet.jar;C:\devel\xmlrpc- java\lib\xmlrpc.jar;C:\devel\jdom- 
b6\lib\collections.jar;C:\devel\jdom- b6\lib\ant.jar  

As you can see the xerces.jar file is the first entry.  

Can anyone help me on this?  I'm a novice programmer so even  
obvious help  will be helpfull.  
Thanks,  
Richard Barry  
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Richard Barry
MSc.Ing.
Universiteit van Stellenbosch
Tel 072-2553055 (sel)
    021-8839482 (huis)
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