OpenSAML user discussion

[Carlos Rivera <>]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to run this tutorial from opensaml.org: 
https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/OpenSAML/OSTwoUsrManJavaCreateFromXML

but I keep receiving the following exception during execution.


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 
org.relaxng.datatype.helpers.DatatypeLibraryLoader$Service$Loader2.getResources(libgcj.so.90)
   at 
org.relaxng.datatype.helpers.DatatypeLibraryLoader$Service.<init>(libgcj.so.90)
   at org.relaxng.datatype.helpers.DatatypeLibraryLoader.<init>(libgcj.so.90)
   at gnu.xml.validation.xmlschema.XMLSchemaBuilder.<init>(libgcj.so.90)
   at 
gnu.xml.validation.xmlschema.XMLSchemaSchemaFactory.newSchema(libgcj.so.90)
   at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(libgcj.so.90)
   at org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.<init>(XMLConfigurator.java:92)
   at org.opensaml.xml.XMLConfigurator.<init>(XMLConfigurator.java:73)
   at 
org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.initializeXMLTooling(DefaultBootstrap.java:139)
   at org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap(DefaultBootstrap.java:83)
   at SamlHandler.main(SamlHandler.java:46)


FYI:  I had to add additional jars because they were missing from the 
opensaml source that I downloaded.  Here's the complete list of jars that are 
in my classpath:

opensaml-2.2.3.jar
lib/bcprov-ext-jdk15-1.40.jar
lib/commons-codec-1.3.jar
lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar
lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
lib/commons-lang-2.1.jar
lib/jargs-1.0.jar
lib/jcip-annotations-1.0.jar
lib/joda-time-1.5.2.jar
lib/not-yet-commons-ssl-0.3.9.jar
lib/openws-1.2.2.jar
lib/velocity-1.5.jar
lib/xmlsec-1.4.2.jar
lib/xmltooling-1.2.0.jar
endorsed/resolver-2.9.1.jar
endorsed/serializer-2.9.1.jar
endorsed/xalan-2.7.1.jar
endorsed/xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar
endorsed/xml-apis-2.9.1.jar
jcl-over-slf4j-1.5.6.jar
slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar
apache-log4j-1.2.15/log4j-1.2.15.jar