[jdom-interest] ClassCastException

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:48 AM -0400 9/10/02, kenk at boxerlearning.com wrote:

>What I'd like to know is:
>
>1) Has this been officially reported as a bug in JDOM?
>2) Does anyone know of any plans to address the problem?
>3) Has anyone contacted the junit people about this bug?  It seems to me like
>it's a bug in junit, as well.
>

This is neither a bug in JDOM nor a bug in JUnit. It is arguably a 
bug in your code; but really what it really is is a bug in the design 
of Java's class loading mechanism. There's not a whole hell of a lot 
either JDOM or JUnit can do about this. Sorry :-(
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