I resolved this tricky problem. Jena and XWiki both use Xerces. I found the actualValueType field in the xerces API (http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/xerces2/org/apache/xerces/impl/dv/ValidatedInfo.html#actualValue ).
. The fact is that it seems that XWiki uses a jar file which is less complete than the one provided by Jena (called xercesImpl.jar). I therefore deleted xerces-2.4.0.jar from WEB-INF/lib and replaced it with the one provided by xerces.

However, this looks more like a hack to a real solution. Does anyone know where I could configure XWiki to give priority to the Jena jar when I call my plugin rather than to the XWiki one?

Thanks a lot!

On 05/04/06, Julien Bourdon <bourdux@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all!

I'm trying to develop a plugin to interact with Jena (http://jena.sourceforge.net ), a semantic web framework.

I developed the plugin as I documented it in the plugin development tutorial. I have a hello() method which works perfectly. however when I try to call this method:

public List<String> test1(){
   Vector<String> uris = new Vector<String>();
   OntModel model = ModelFactory.createOntologyModel(OntModelSpec.RDFS_MEM_RDFS_INF, null );
   model.read("http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~zzc05jb/environmentOntology/pollutionInventory.rdfs ");
   model.read(" http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~zzc05jb/environmentOntology/instances/disposalRecoveryMethods.rdf ");
   Iterator iter = model.listIndividuals();
   while(iter.hasNext()){
      OntResource ontClass = (OntResource)iter.next();
      uris.add(ontClass.getURI());
   }
   return uris;
}

I get this exception:

Error number 4001 in 4: Error while parsing velocity page Tests.OntologyPlugin Wrapped Exception: Invocation of method 'test1' in class secoia.plugin.OntologyPluginApi threw exception class java.lang.NoSuchFieldError : actualValueType

I can't really make sense of it. This method works if i use it form a classic Java application. I copied all the Jena jar files to the webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib directory. Moreover, I don't know where this actualValueType comes from. Does it come from XWiki?

Any clue on this problem?

Thanks a lot!

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