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<p><a href="#bcel">What does it mean when I get
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compile a binding?</a></p>
<p><a href="#nobind">What does it mean when I get
<code>org.jibx.runtime.JiBXException: Unable to access binding information for
class ...</code> thrown while trying to run my
application with JiBX?</a></p>
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when I try to marshal a document?</a></p>
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generated by JiBX (including the binding factory class or classes, and the
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such as JDO or Hibernate?</a></p>
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<p><a href="#schema">Is there a DTD or schema available for the binding definitions?</a></p>
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<p><a name="bcel"/><b>Q. What does it mean when I get
<code>java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError</code> thrown while trying to
compile a binding?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>This is caused by having an older version of the Apache BCEL library somewhere
in your classpath ahead of the JiBX libraries. It usually occurs when using the
Ant binding task, because Ant often includes an XSLT library named
<i>xsltc.jar</i> in the classpath, and this library uses BCEL. It could also
occur outside of Ant if you have <i>xsltc.jar</i> in your Java installation's
<i>/lib/ext</i> directory. <i>xalan.jar</i> can also cause the same problem, and
for the same reason.</p>
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<p><a name="nobind"/><b>Q. What does it mean when I get
<code>org.jibx.runtime.JiBXException: Unable to access binding information for
class ...</code> thrown while trying to run my application with JiBX?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>This means your class files (or at least the one for the class you asked the
<code>org.jibx.runtime.BindingDirectory</code> to look up) haven't been processed
by the JiBX binding compiler. Check your build process and make sure you're
doing the binding compiler step. This problem has been known to occur in some
IDEs when the IDE uses a different location for compiled class files from what
is used by an Ant build script or manual build process.</p>
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<p><a name="npe"/><b>Q. Why do I get a <code>java.lang.NullPointerException</code>
when I try to marshal a document?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>The most likely cause is that you've got a <code>null</code> value
for an object that's not marked as optional in the binding definition. JiBX
trusts what you tell it, so if you don't say an object property is optional the
generated code won't check for a <code>null</code>. To isolate the cause of this
type of problem, look through the stack trace (starting at the top) for the
first class name from your code. This will normally be the class that contains
the null property. You can then verify the binding definition for that class. If
it's not obvious which property is causing the problem, add a <b>pre-get</b>
method to that class for debugging purposes which checks if any of the
non-optional object properties used by the binding are <code>null</code>
(throwing an exception when it finds a <code>null</code>, with any added
information you want to see). This will let you find out all the details of the
problem so that you can fix either the code or the binding, whichever is wrong.</p>
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<p><a name="package"/><b>Q. How can I control the package used for the classes
generated by JiBX (including the binding factory class or classes, and the
<code>JiBX_MungeAdapter.class</code>)?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>You can control the package used for the binding factory class for a
binding by using the <b>package</b> attribute of the <b>binding</b> element. The
<code>JiBX_MungeAdapter.class</code> is only generated if needed. When needed,
it's created in the package of the first <b>mapping</b> class which is both
modifiable (a class defined in its own file, rather than in a jar file) and not
an interface. If you need this to be in a particular package (as may happen when
you're binding classes that have package access), include a <b>mapping</b> for
one of the classes in this package before any other <b>mapping</b>s in the
binding definition, and if you're compiling more than one binding make the one
with this <b>mapping</b> the first one in the list. If necessary, you can
compile bindings in multiple sets to get more than one
<code>JiBX_MungeAdapter.class</code> in different packages. This only works if
you have bindings with no overlapping packages, though - otherwise running the
binding compiler twice with different sets of bindings will cause information
from the first set to be lost.</p>
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<p><a name="jdo"/><b>Q. Does JiBX work with other bytecode modification
techniques, such as JDO or Hibernate?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>Yes, JiBX works well with other frameworks which build on bytecode
modification. In the case of JDO you'll generally need to run the JiBX binding
compiler before you run the JDO bytecode enhancement, since the latter may need
to intercept field accesses from the JiBX code. In the case of Hibernate this is
not an issue, since Hibernate only uses runtime bytecode enhancements; however,
you will generally need to have JiBX use get/set methods rather than directly
access fields with working with Hibernate.</p>
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<p><a name="jdk"/><b>Q. Which JDK versions are supported by JiBX?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>JiBX has been tested on JDK versions 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5. There are some
minor differences on the <a href="building.html">build</a> for JDK 1.3, but these
differences do not effect the runtime operation.</p>
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<p><a name="schema"/><b>Q. Is there a DTD or schema available for the binding
definitions?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>The <i>/docs</i> directory of the distribution includes both a DTD
(<i>binding.dtd</i>) and an XML schema (<i>binding.xsd</i>) for the binding
definitions. These will hopefully be kept up to date, but the definitive
reference for the binding definition format is the <a href="details/binding-overview.html">HTML
documentation</a>.</p>
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<p><a name="support"/><b>Q. How can I get support or training for JiBX?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>Glad you asked! I (Dennis Sosnoski, Lead Developer and Instigator-in-Chief
for JiBX) provide <a href="http://www.sosnoski.com">Java XML and Web services
consulting, training, and support</a> through my company, Sosnoski Software
Solutions, Inc. You can contact me directly for priority paid support via <a
href="mailto:dms@sosnoski.com">email</a> or telephone (+1 425 296-6194). Of course,
you can also use the email lists for free support, though that
may take longer to get an answer (lunch is free; table service costs extra).</p>
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<p><a name="example"/><b>Q. Where can I find more information or examples?</b><br/>
<b>A. </b>There's a <a href="http://wiki.jibx.org">Wiki</a> for JiBX help
and pointers, which will soon be updated for the JiBX 1.0 production release.
There are also
searchable archives for the JiBX mailing lists, at the Mail Archive (<a
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/jibx-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/">jibx-users</a>
and <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/jibx-devs%40lists.sourceforge.net/">jibx-devs</a>)
and MARC: Mailing List Archives at AIMS
(<a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jibx-users&r=1&w=2">jibx-users</a>,
<a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jibx-devs&r=1&w=2">jibx-devs</a>, and
<a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jibx-cvs&r=1&w=2">jibx-cvs</a>). You're
welcome to ask questions on the mailing lists (especially the <b>jibx-users</b>
list), but it's always a good idea to check the archives first before asking a
usage question, just in case it's already been discussed. The archives are
public, but you must subscribe to each list before you can post to that list.</p>
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