diff --git a/src/org/apache/xalan/serialize/WriterToUTF8Buffered.java b/src/org/apache/xalan/serialize/WriterToUTF8Buffered.java
index b43ece5..18b3dbc 100644
--- a/src/org/apache/xalan/serialize/WriterToUTF8Buffered.java
+++ b/src/org/apache/xalan/serialize/WriterToUTF8Buffered.java
@@ -67,13 +67,14 @@
 public final class WriterToUTF8Buffered extends Writer
 {
 
-  /** The byte stream to write to. */
-  private final OutputStream m_os;
+  /** The byte stream to write to. (sc & sb remove final to compile in JDK 1.1.8) */
+  private OutputStream m_os;
 
   /**
-   * The internal buffer where data is stored.
+   * The internal buffer where data is stored. 
+   * (sc & sb remove final to compile in JDK 1.1.8)
    */
-  private final byte buf[];
+  private byte buf[];
 
   /**
    * The number of valid bytes in the buffer. This value is always
diff --git a/src/org/apache/xml/dtm/ref/DTMDefaultBaseIterators.java b/src/org/apache/xml/dtm/ref/DTMDefaultBaseIterators.java
index 5e81414..cbbdae7 100644
--- a/src/org/apache/xml/dtm/ref/DTMDefaultBaseIterators.java
+++ b/src/org/apache/xml/dtm/ref/DTMDefaultBaseIterators.java
@@ -1753,8 +1753,8 @@
   private class SingletonIterator extends InternalAxisIteratorBase
   {
 
-    /** (not sure yet what this is.  -sb) */
-    private final boolean _isConstant;
+    /** (not sure yet what this is.  -sb)  (sc & sb remove final to compile in JDK 1.1.8) */
+    private boolean _isConstant;
 
     /**
      * Constructor SingletonIterator