OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

JAXP is an interface, Xerces + Xalan happen to provide one 
implementation (the only one which we know works).  Sun happens to ship 
a pre-alpha release of a really old version of Xerces which is the 
com.sun.org.apache.... classes.  These are horribly broken and fail on 
anything but the simplest of XML parsing use cases.

If you see com.sun.org.apache...  classes being used then Apache 
released and maintained versions of Xerces and Xalan are not being used.

At the moment you seem to be providing contradictory information.  You 
said that it "just doesn't do anything" and then "looks like it fails 
while validating".  Is there some error you are seeing that you didn't 
include?  The loading of classes that you included is not a problem in 
and of itself, the JVM will load thousands of classes as it runs.


 wrote:
> Hello -
>
> While working with openSAML I still have some problem at 
> DefaultBootStrap.bootstrap but this time it wouldn't throw the exception 
> reported in this mail.  It just doesn't do anything after reaching a specific 
> point in the stack.  But looks like it still fails while validating the XML.
>
> Also I switched on the verbose and this is what I find:
> First few lines:
>
> [Opened C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\common\endorsed\xalan.jar]
> [Opened C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\common\endorsed\xercesImpl.jar]
> [Opened C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_07\lib\rt.jar]
> .....
>
> I find many classes loaded from xerces - An exmaple
> [Loaded org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl from 
> C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\common\endorsed\xercesImpl.jar]
>
> I also find many classes loaded from xalan - An example
> [Loaded org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl from 
> C:\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\common\endorsed\xalan.jar]
>
> I also find many classes loaded from rt.jar that are related to xml validation
> Ex:
> [Loaded com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl from 
> C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_07\lib\rt.jar]
> [Loaded com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl$1 
> from C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_07\lib\rt.jar]
> [Loaded com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.ValidatorImpl$2 
> from C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_07\lib\rt.jar]
>
>
> Is this behavior correct?
> I read http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-javaxmlvalidapi.html 
> that jaxp is bundled with xerces.
>
> Am I missing something which needs to be resolved?
>
> I appreciate any help.
>
> Regards
> Prasanna Krishna

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