Hi Steve, This error occurs when you use jdk1.1.x. Try using jdk1.2. This problem doesn't occur with jdk1.2. If you have any more problems please do let me know. - Rajiv > > I've got an application which subclasses ElementNode with, for example, a > class com.artemisalliance.xml.ModelNode. ModelNode implements some methods > which wrap various features of the Node interface. > > This works fine when I have the com.sun.xml package exploded into my class > path for the IDE, but if I try to run it with the package in the jar, > either in the ide or in a browser, I get an IllegalAccessError: > > java.lang.IllegalAccessError: try to access class > com/sun/xml/tree/ParentNode from class com/artemisalliance/xml/client/ModelNode > > I've got three questions: > > 1) Why is ParentNode not a public class? > > 2) Why does the JVM throw this only when the package is jar'd? > > 3) Any ideas what I can do about this? It would be very inconvenient not > to be able to subclass ElementNode. > > TIA > > > Steve Demuth > > Artemis Alliance, Inc. An Inprise Premier Partner > 289 East Fifth St, Suite 211 > St. Paul, MN 55101 sdemuth@artemisalliance.com > 651-227-7172 or 319-382-0593 > > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)