Gurus,

Please help.

I've a java based e-speak adapter that uses MPE Class files to:

open a message file.
read the record.
format to XML
send over the 'wire' to e-Speak engine.

The adapter seems okay on our development machine but on our production
machine, it throws an exception:

java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:69)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:71)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:58)
        at com.hp.mpe.Intrinsic.loadFromJar(Intrinsic.java:74)
        at com.hp.mpe.MPEFile.HPFOPEN(Compiled Code)
        at vsPurchaseOrderAdapter.main(vsPurchaseOrderAdapter.java:1478)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.hp.mpe.MPEFile.HPFOPEN(Compiled Code)
        at vsPurchaseOrderAdapter.main(vsPurchaseOrderAdapter.java:1478)


Please help.

rgds,
daniel