MPXJ : Jaxb error reading xml file

I am trying to use mpxj to read from and write to an xml file but I am getting a jaxb error "Failed to parse file". I can see that it fails at this line on the MSPDIReader

JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance ("net.sf.mpxj.mspdi.schema");

I have installed the jaxb and other jar files in the right location. One thing I did notice was the the poi jar shipped with mpxj was a newer one, so I replaced my old version with the new one. Any suggestions on getting past this much appreciated.

thanks

Welcome to Javaranch!

Can you show us the stack trace that gets produced? It's saying that it can't parse the file but there can be many reasons for that...

Hi Marijn,
Looks like a jaxbException... Here's the stack.
wt.util.WTException: net.sf.mpxj.MPXJException: Failed to parse file
Nested exception is: net.sf.mpxj.MPXJException: Failed to parse file
at net.sf.mpxj.mspdi.MSPDIReader.read(MSPDIReader.java:153)
at com.ptc.projectmanagement.msproject.MspImporter.constructPlanHierarchy(MspImporter.java:387)

Also, at the bottom of the stack I noticed it is still looking for the properties file

Caused by: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: Unable to locate jaxb.properties for package net.sf.mpxj.mspdi.schema
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.searchcontextPath(ContextFinder.java:205)
at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:149)
at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:281)
at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:238)
at net.sf.mpxj.mspdi.MSPDIReader.read(MSPDIReader.java:106)
... 27 more

OK, is jaxb.properties on the CLASSPATH?

Hi Martjin,

Sorry for the late response. Was on vacation. I got past the jaxbexception. Turned out I still had jaxb 1.0 in my codebase taking precedence over the 2.0 I placed elsewhere. Now that I have 2.0 in all the right places, I'm able to import/export xml files !

thanks for the suggestions !
Nija
[ November 20, 2008: Message edited by: Nija Shah ]

Hi Nija, glad to hear it was solved! Thanks for replying.