OpenSAML user discussion

[Mike Klein <>]

Yes we use eclipse and ibm's jdk/jre.

I get the same error when I upgrade to 2.9.0 xerces. I am trying to stay
with 2.7.1 versions as we will require major upgrade time otherwise.


mike

Brent Putman wrote:
> Is that using IBM's JDK?
>
> FWIW, I just tested the latest trunk of java-xmltooling on my IBM Linux
> JDK, using BouncyCastle configured as a security provider.  Everything
> compiles OK and all unit tests pass.
>
> That's with this IBM JDK version:
>
>  $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version
> java version "1.5.0"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
> pxi32dev-20070201 (SR4))
> IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Linux x86-32
> j9vmxi3223-20070201 (JIT enabled)
> J9VM - 20070131_11312_lHdSMR
> JIT  - 20070109_1805ifx1_r8
> GC   - 200701_09)
> JCL  - 20070126
>
>
> Bouncy Castle is configured in jre/lib/security/java.security as the
> last provider, like so:
>
> #
> # List of providers and their preference orders (see above):
> #
> security.provider.1=com.ibm.jsse2.IBMJSSEProvider2
> security.provider.2=com.ibm.crypto.provider.IBMJCE
> security.provider.3=com.ibm.security.jgss.IBMJGSSProvider
> security.provider.4=com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPath
> security.provider.5=com.ibm.security.sasl.IBMSASL
> security.provider.6=org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider
>
>
> I remember I had to experiment quite a bit awhile back with the ordering
> of the security providers in the IBM JDK, and this seemed the only
> ordering that worked for the Apache XML Security library stuff.  This
> was my first foray into using IBM's JDK, however, so YMMV.
>
> --Brent
>
>
>
>
> Mike Klein wrote:
>   
>> I pulled latest release for each subsystem and can get them to build,
>> although tests don't pass again.
>>
>> I now have SignatureConstants class which is good.
>>
>> I notice there are some changes which now break startup/initialization.
>> This may be because we are using xerces 2.7.1 (I will try 2.9.0) but it
>> seems like coding error. I am looking into it.
>>
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>     at
>> org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl.getAttribute(Unknown
>> Source)
>>     at
>> org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl.newDocumentBuilder(Unknown
>> Source)
>>     at
>> org.opensaml.xml.parse.BasicParserPool.createBuilder(BasicParserPool.java:506)
>>     at
>> org.opensaml.xml.parse.BasicParserPool.getBuilder(BasicParserPool.java:158)
>>     at
>> org.opensaml.xml.parse.BasicParserPool.parse(BasicParserPool.java:199)
>>     at org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.load(XMLConfigurator.java:128)
>>     at
>> org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.initializeXMLTooling(DefaultBootstrap.java:126)
>>     at org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap(DefaultBootstrap.java:71)
>>
>>
>> mike
>>
>>
>>   
>>
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