OpenSAML user discussion

[Leonid Igolnik <>]

Resending, my first message bounced since I was not subscribed.

Leonid
On Jul 16, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Leonid Igolnik wrote:

> Guys, I am hitting a wall here, we are trying to integrate openSaml  
> into the product that already have a newer version of xerces  
> bundled. We get:
>
> java.lang.AbstractMethodError:  
> javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setFeature(Ljava/lang/ 
> String;Z)V
>         at org.opensaml.XML$ParserPool.<init>(XML.java:487)
>         at org.opensaml.XML.<clinit>(XML.java:117)
>         at org.opensaml.SAMLSignedObject.fromDOM(SAMLSignedObject.java:79)
>         at org.opensaml.SAMLAssertion.fromDOM(SAMLAssertion.java:188)
>         at org.opensaml.SAMLAssertion.<init>(SAMLAssertion.java:158)
>
> When trying to parse the assertion from XML, if we replace the  
> xerces with the one from the 1.1 distro we get:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementImpl.setIdAttributeNode(Unknown  
> Source)
>         at org.opensaml.SAMLAssertion.fromDOM(SAMLAssertion.java:201)
>         at org.opensaml.SAMLAssertion.<init>(SAMLAssertion.java:158)
>
>
> Any insight will be appreciated.
>
> Leonid