OpenSAML user discussion

[Leonid Igolnik <>]

Chad, I have done that and still get the NPE, any other idea ? We do  
use JAXB2 in our setup, but after trying to remove it from the  
classpath we still get the same results.

Leonid
On Jul 17, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Chad La Joie wrote:

> You need to endorse Xerces and Xalan.  This is the error you get  
> when trying to use JAXP 1.1
>
> Leonid Igolnik wrote:
> > 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
>
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