In certain situations, the xslt task within some of the TIBant macros will use the Xalan xslt processor instead of Saxon, which results in the following error
[tibant:configure-ear] : Error! The first argument to the non-static Java function 'determineSetting' is not a valid object reference.
...snip...
[tibant:configure-ear] : Error! The first argument to the non-static Java function 'ifAbsent' is not a valid object reference.
[tibant:configure-ear] : Error! The first argument to the non-static Java function 'determineSetting' is not a valid object reference.
[tibant:configure-ear] : Error! The first argument to the non-static Java function 'determineSetting' is not a valid object reference.
[tibant:configure-ear] : Error! Error checking type of the expression 'funcall(tokenize, [FilterParentPath(filter-expr(variable-ref(deploy/node-set), [pred(=(st
ep("attribute", 18), funcall(concat, [cast(parameter-ref(prefix/reference), string), literal-expr(bindings)])))]), step("attribute", 19)), literal-expr(,)])'.
[tibant:configure-ear] : Fatal Error! Could not compile stylesheet
[tibant:configure-ear] Failed to process C:\ant\TIBant-1.3.0\example\build\example-a.b.c.xml
This can be fixed by explicitly telling the JVM which XSLT processor to use.
If you are running ant from the command line, then set ANT_OPTS environment variable to -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl. e.g.,
set ANT_OPTS=-Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl
and set the ANT_ARGS environment variable to -lib path\to\saxon9he.jar. e.g., if TIBant is installed in C:\Developer\TIBant
set ANT_ARGS=-lib C:\Developer\TIBant\lib\saxon9e.jar
If you are running ant from Eclipse (or Business Studio), then open the External Tools Configuration from the menu run > External Tools > External Tools Configuration...
Select the Ant Build configuration for your project and in the JRE tab in the VM arguments field add
-Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl
-lib