Why do I get a LinkageError when using XML interfaces in my TestCase?
(Submitted by: Scott Stirling) The workaround as of JUnit 3.7 is to add org.w3c.dom.* and org.xml.sax.* to your excluded.properties. Its just a matter of time before this fix becomes incorporated into the released version of JUnit’s excluded.properties, since JAXP is a standard part of JDK 1.4. It will be just like excluding org.omg.*. By the way, if you download the JUnit source from its Sourceforge CVS, you will find that these patterns have already been added to the default excluded.properties and so has a pattern for JINI. In fact, here is the current version in CVS, which demonstrates how to add exclusions to the list too: # # The list of excluded package paths for the TestCaseClassLoader # excluded.0=sun.* excluded.1=com.sun.* excluded.2=org.omg.* excluded.3=javax.* excluded.4=sunw.* excluded.5=java.* excluded.6=org.w3c.dom.* excluded.7=org.xml.sax.* excluded.8=net.jini.* This is the most common case where the default excluded.properties list needs modification. The cause of the
