libgcj/8130: ERROR: Invalid encoding name / ClassNotFoundException

[johannes@altium.nl]

>Number:         8130
>Category:       libgcj
>Synopsis:       ERROR: Invalid encoding name / ClassNotFoundException
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 03 01:26:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     myself
>Release:        gcc-3.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
Debian Linux 3.0 / Kernel version 2.4.19-x75
>Description:
When invoking a Xerces DOM XML parser, from my Java code, I get the following runtime error:

ERROR: Invalid encoding name " (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.gcj.convert.Input_)".
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 0x4021bde2: _Jv_ThrowSignal (/pub/gcc-3.2/lib/libgcj.so.3)

I tried compiling the code with --encoding=ASCII, --encoding=UTF-8 and -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8.
But this has no effect.
>How-To-Repeat:
Below is a Java code fragment that invokes a Xerces DOM parser with an (ASCII) XML file.


import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;

...
...
                ErrorHandler errorHandler = new DomErrorHandler();
                DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();

                try
                {
                        parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", true);
                        parser.setErrorHandler(errorHandler);

                        // DOM parse import spec. file
========>               parser.parse(file);             <============== triggers ERROR (1)


...
...



(1)

ERROR: Invalid encoding name " (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.gcj.convert.Input_)".
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 0x4021bde2: _Jv_ThrowSignal (/pub/gcc-3.2/lib/libgcj.so.3)
>Fix:
No fix yet.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
----gnatsweb-attachment----
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="ttt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ttt"

aW1wb3J0IG9yZy5hcGFjaGUueGVyY2VzLnBhcnNlcnMuRE9NUGFyc2VyOwoKLi4uCi4uLgogICAg
ICAgICAgICAgICAgRXJyb3JIYW5kbGVyIGVycm9ySGFuZGxlciA9IG5ldyBEb21FcnJvckhhbmRs
ZXIoKTsKICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIERPTVBhcnNlciBwYXJzZXIgPSBuZXcgRE9NUGFyc2VyKCk7
CgogICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgdHJ5CiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICB7CiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg
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