OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Yeah, he meant 2.0 and no it's not released yet.  I would have preferred 
to not even support 1.4, but we needed to.

As far as WebSphere goes, you may want to call IBM.  The only reason 
changing those endorsed libraries should break anything is if IBM is 
using unsupported/implementation dependent classes (kinda like relying 
on com.sun classes) which is huge no-no.  Out of curiosity, when you get 
a DOM builder factory and get it's class name what does it return?  My 
understanding was that IBM shipped WebSphere with IBM's JDK.  To date 
the only XML parser that we *know* is broken is Sun's.

Alpino, Justin wrote:
> Hi Scott, 
>
> Thanks for the reply, but I'm not too hopeful that we will be able to
> resolve the issues we are encountering w/ WebSphere in the timeframe that
> the project that I'm on dictates. Parts of WS's core webservice components
> broke when we replaced the xerces/xalan/xml-apis package that they had under
> the endorsed library (which came as part of the 6.0.2.9 refresh pack) with
> the ones needed for openSAML. We are looking at other deployment options for
> the time being.
>
> As far as the new release not supporting 1.3, I thought that the openSAML1.1
> project was frozen and that there would be no new releases? If you were
> implying the next release of openSAML2.0, has it come out of beta yet?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Justin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:] 
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:01 PM
> To: 'Alpino, Justin'; 
>
> Subject: RE: Trouble w/ endorsed libraries
>
> > The environment I have to deploy to is WebSphere 6.0.2.9. Can any one
> > offer suggestions on how I might be able to get around having to 
> > use the endorsed overrides (not likely) or build under jdk 1.3?
>
> I think you should reconsider trying, because the upcoming release is not
> going to support 1.3. So you're asking to get stuck on orphaned code, which
> is not a good thing. Just my two cents.
>
> -- Scott
>
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