OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> Has anyone encountered this issue? Is there a better way to 
> make this work? Are the dom3 jar files backwards compatible, 
> i.e will IBM applications continue to work if I remove their 
> xml.jar files?

The DOM3 jars are just Xerces 2.5 with the extra calls implemented. There is
no case that I know of in which the DOM3 version would behave differently
than the base version.

Of course, if the application requires a particular Xerces version, then you
might need to build the DOM3 version of that particular release instead, but
for the most part the SAML code should work with anything fairly recent.

Most incompatibilities are thus a Xerces version issue, not a DOM3 vs. DOM2
question.

-- Scott