I believe the problem is due to digester.jar which is used by Weblogic server itself. I am getting the following Exception. So the problem is that xmlparser calls the digester loaded by the Weblogic system classloader while the jasperreport.jar is in the applicate.ear classpath which the weblogic digester class cannot see.
I do not have a good solution yet. Any suggestion is appreciated.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JasperDesignFactory
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Ljava.lang.String;Z)Ljava.lang.Class;(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Ljava.lang.String
Ljava.lang.Class;(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.FactoryCreateRule.getFactory(FactoryCreateRule.java:489)
at org.apache.commons.digester.FactoryCreateRule.begin(FactoryCreateRule.java:389)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1453)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:533)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:798)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:878)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1157)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1794)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
at weblogic.xml.jaxp.WebLogicXMLReader.parse(WebLogicXMLReader.java:133)
at weblogic.xml.jaxp.RegistryXMLReader.parse(RegistryXMLReader.java:153)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1745)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.loadXML(JRXmlLoader.java:239)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.loadXML(JRXmlLoader.java:226)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:214)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.xml.JRXmlLoader.load(JRXmlLoader.java:168)