Hi,

I'm having problems deploying my hibernate project which works fine under tomcat 4, but reports the following warning at startup with tomcat 5:

WARN net.sf.hibernate.xml.XMLDatabinder - Problem opening output stylesheet - databinding disabled
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: can't declare any more prefixes in this context

As anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround? Is it a hibernate bug or a Tomcat 5 issue?

Here's the full stack trace:

[main] INFO net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl - building session factory
[main] WARN net.sf.hibernate.xml.XMLDatabinder - Problem opening output styleshe
et - databinding disabled
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.Trans
formerException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: can't declare any more prefixe
s in this context
at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(Transf
ormerFactoryImpl.java:946)
at net.sf.hibernate.xml.XMLDatabinder.getOutputStyleSheetTemplates(XMLDa
tabinder.java:254)
at net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.ja
va:160)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.
java:720)
at uk.co.blueyonder.commons.servlets.HibernateStartupServlet.startupHibe
rnate(Unknown Source)
at uk.co.blueyonder.commons.servlets.HibernateStartupServlet.init(Unknow
n Source)
at uk.co.blueyonder.www.servlets.StartupServlet.init(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.
java:1044)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:88
7)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContex
t.java:3960)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4
283)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase
.java:866)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:85
0)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:638)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDep
loyer.java:320)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:875)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:657
)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:476
)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1008)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java
:394)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(Lifecycl
eSupport.java:166)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1133)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:832)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1125)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:518
)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:5
19)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:234
5)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:598)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398)
Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.lang.IllegalStateExcep
tion: can't declare any more prefixes in this context
at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(Transf
ormerFactoryImpl.java:942)
... 33 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: can't declare any more prefixes in t
his context
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:524)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)

at org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(Transf
ormerFactoryImpl.java:934)

cheers,
Chico

I just got the same thing moving to latest version, did you figure this out?

Played around with the jars and finally got it, not sure which one fixed it though, just tried to make sure i got all the latest hibernate jars.

I had the same problem. Removed googleapi.jar from the classpath which solved the problem.

The Hibernate 2.1.6 lib folders have updated version of Xalan (2.4.0), Xerces (2.4.0) and XML-APIs.jar. If you place these in the [tomcat]/common/endorsed directory, the error dumps stop. (Tested with Tomcat 5.0.27)

Wow, can't believe this is what was causing the problem, but I removed the googleapi.jar like you said and boom, it worked. I had updated jars to the latest of everything and no luck, frikin google. ;)

So anyways, i took a peak into the googleapi.jar and here are some other things that are included:

javax.activation
javax.mail
javax.xml
org.apache.crimson
org.apache.soap
org.w3c.dom
org.xml.sax
com.sun.activation
com.sun.mail

Wow, this has jar hell written all over it.