[jdom-interest] jdom b8 and Tomcat 4.0.3

[Patrick McFarlane]

Hello,

 I've been using jdom for over a year now and I've run into a bit of an
issue with Tomcat 4.0.3 when upgrading from jdom b7 to jdom b8. My
application runs fine in Tomcat with jdom b7, but as soon as I update my
jdom jar to b8 the application throws a StackOverflowError. I'll include the
stack trace at the bottom of this post. Does any one have an idea what has
changed in b8 that could cause this? I see that b7 had the following in the
MANIFEST.MF, Class-Path: ../lib/xerces.jar xerces.jar and b8 no longer has
this, but I'm not sure if this would cause such an exception. I will also
try posting this to a Tomcat users group. I appreciate any opinions/answers
that you might have.
Error: 
javax.servlet.ServletException at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:485) at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.
java:683) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatch
er.java:431) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher
.java:355) at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:414)
at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImp
l.java:452) at org.apache.jsp.error$jsp._jspService(error$jsp.java:453) at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:107) at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja
va:202) at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:382) at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:474) at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.
java:683) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatch
er.java:431) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher
.java:355) at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:414)
at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImp
l.java:452) 
root cause 
java.lang.StackOverflowError
	at
org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestBase.setAttribute(RequestBase.java:1044
)
	at
org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.setAttribute(RequestFacade.java:
216)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)
	at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setAttribute(ApplicationHttp
Request.java:251)

thanks in advance,
patrick mcfarlane