OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

A new version of Xerces-J has been released.  If you are testing 
OpenSAML 2, Java edition, I strongly recommend you upgrade to Xerces 
2.8.1.  DocumentBuilders in the past versions of Xerces held onto a 
reference of the DOM they parsed.  Since OpenSAML 2 has improved parser 
pooling code the DocumentBuidlers will very rarely be garbage collected 
and thus DOM trees will continue to accumulate in memory.  Xerces 2.8.1 
appropriately releases the reference to the parsed DOM tree, so when 
SAMLObjects are garbage collected, or are instructed to release their 
DOM, the DOM tree will be appropriately garbage collected.
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