OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

I believe that one of our other developers said he had done some 
superficial testing on IBM's VM and its parser seemed to work, or at 
least it got further than the Sun VM (which won't even read in the 
config file for OpenSAML properly).

Scott Cantor wrote:
> > We have an app deployed in JBoss that needs Xerces2. We are trying to
> > integrate OpenSAML into our application and cannot move forward because of
> > the version Disparities.  It appears that OpenSAML is built against the
> > first version.  Does anyone have a solution or a port against the newer
> > version of Xerces?
>
> There are no versions of OpenSAML that use Xerces 1.x. The code itself is
> not Xerces-dependent at all, it *requires* JAXP 1.3. That goes for
> stable/old and the unreleased version in development.
>
> The common thread is that the only usable JAXP 1.3 parser we know is Xerces
> 2.x, so in practice it requires that. Could be that other parsers will work,
> but Sun's won't.
>
> So, basically, you're confused in some way. Whatever the disparity is, it
> sure isn't the Xerces version.
>
> -- Scott

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