Saxon

This is working for me. If I supply a filename that contains a valid license, all is working OK. If I supply a filename that does not exist, I get:

@net.sf.saxon.trans.LicenseException: Failed to read license file /Users/mike/inactive-license/saxon-license.lic@

If I supply a filename that is not a license file, I get

@net.sf.saxon.trans.LicenseException: Invalid encoding for signature@

Are you sure there is no message associated with the exception?

One possibility is problems with the license file encoding. There is a history of problems when license files contain non-ASCII characters, partly caused by the fact that we transmit them by email, and partly a legacy issue because we have to be able to read license files issued years ago when these were in Windows-1252 encoding.

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply.

I am evaluating saxon ee for xsd1.1 validation. It is very important that I am able to supply the the license key.

File license = new File("e:/MySpace/lib/SaxonEE9-8-0-4J/saxon-license.lic");
    File saxonConfig = new File("saxon.xml");
    String licensePath = "E:/MySpace/lib/SaxonEE9-8-0-4J/saxon-license.lic";
    EnterpriseConfiguration conf = (EnterpriseConfiguration) EnterpriseConfiguration.readConfiguration(new StreamSource(saxonConfig));
    File xsd = new File("e:/MySpace/ps-commons/src/test/resources/com/sdl/ps/commons/text/xml/validation/SDB_Schema_Length.xsd");
    File xml = new File("e:/MySpace/ps-commons/src/test/resources/com/sdl/ps/commons/text/xml/validation/SDB_4_20170124_1214_de_zh.xml");
    conf.setConfigurationProperty(FeatureKeys.LICENSE_FILE_LOCATION, licensePath);
    com.saxonica.ee.jaxp.SchemaFactoryImpl factory = new com.saxonica.ee.jaxp.SchemaFactoryImpl();

it throws the below exception when I try to create a schema factory.

Exception in thread "main" net.sf.saxon.trans.LicenseException: License file saxon-license.lic not found. Tried in file:/E:/MySpace/lib/saxon-license.lic, and classpath. A license is needed to use schema processing
	at com.saxonica.config.EnterpriseConfiguration.checkLicensedFeature(EnterpriseConfiguration.java:311)
	at com.saxonica.ee.jaxp.SchemaFactoryImpl.(SchemaFactoryImpl.java:59)
	at webdriver.test.SaxonTest.main(SaxonTest.java:34)

If you're loading the Configuration from a configuration file rather than creating it programmatically, then you need to specify the license file location in the configuration file itself:

Supplying the license file after reading the configuration file is too late, because Saxon needs to check the license while processing the configuration file.

I've been doing some tests and what I wrote above is only partially true. In some cases it is possible to set the LICENSE_FILE_LOCATION property on a configuration that has been built from a configuration file. But it depends what is in the configuration file: if the configuration file sets any properties that depend on a license being available, you'll get a failure because the license file is not yet known. So naming it within the configuration file itself is safer.

In fact I have also specified the license file location in the config file. Like this

I have now removed the part loading configuration from config file.The code is like this now :

String licensePath = "E:/MySpace/lib/SaxonEE9-8-0-4J/saxon-license.lic";
    File licenseFile = new File(licensePath);
    System.out.println(licenseFile.exists());
    EnterpriseConfiguration conf = new EnterpriseConfiguration();
    conf.setConfigurationProperty(FeatureKeys.LICENSE_FILE_LOCATION, licensePath);
    com.saxonica.ee.jaxp.SchemaFactoryImpl factory = new com.saxonica.ee.jaxp.SchemaFactoryImpl();

Still the same exception

true (The license file exists)

Exception in thread "main" net.sf.saxon.trans.LicenseException: License file saxon-license.lic not found. Tried in file:/E:/MySpace/lib/saxon-license.lic, and classpath. A license is needed to use schema processing
	at com.saxonica.config.EnterpriseConfiguration.checkLicensedFeature(EnterpriseConfiguration.java:311)
	at com.saxonica.ee.jaxp.SchemaFactoryImpl.(SchemaFactoryImpl.java:59)
	at webdriver.test.SaxonTest.main(SaxonTest.java:40)

The problem is that the SchemaFactoryImpl you are creating is not associated with any Configuration, so it creates a new one. Try the constructor that accepts a Configuration as an argument.

That was it. It works now.

Thanks.

Hi Michael,

One more question regarding how to make the license file available in class path: I am using saxon in some utility classes which are packed as a jar to be used by web application. How can I wrap the license in a jar and make it available in class path. Copying it manually to the location where saxonee jar exists is not an option.

Thanks, Özkan

If you are packaging an application for distribution to a number of machines, then of course you need a license for each one of those machines: we don't actually mind if you use the same physical license file on each machine, so long as you have paid for enough units to cover your usage. There's a mechanism that dispenses with license files entirely, but this is only applicable to customers who purchase a redistribution license. It may be a good idea to have a commercial discussion about what your best options are, but we would want to do that by email rather than on a public forum.

I think we have tested that when you bundle a license file into a JAR file that is on the classpath, then Saxon will find it.