OpenSAML user discussion

["Jake Wu" <>]

Scott, 

>> In the opensaml readme file, there is the requirement for endorsed 
>> library mechanism in Java. This is to copy dom3-*.jar files from 
>> opensaml/java/endorsed to the JDK's endorsed folder. In the 
>project I 
>> checked out from cvs, I cannot find the dom3-*.jar in the endorsed 
>> folder. However, I can find them in the binary distribution 
>and copied 
>> from there. So what is the difference between the two?
>
>If you mean HEAD, the README file is not updated. The new code 
>is JAXP 1.3 based. All the files in the endorsed folder have 
>to be endorsed on 1.4.x, but none of them are named dom3-* 
>anymore. The JAXP 1.3 parser package for JDK 1.4 includes DOM3 support.

What do you mean by HEAD here? What code do you mean by "new code"?

>A better choice is to use JDK 1.5. You still need Apache xalan 
>(from lib) in the classpath to get xmlsec to work, but the 
>rest of the XML support is part of the JRE and no other 
>libraries are needed.


Cheers,
jake