OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Yeah, every container does something different.

Joakim, does Glassfish document this mechanism (which honestly at first 
glance I think I'd prefer over the standard endorse mechanism) somewhere?

Joakim Recht wrote:
> Chad La Joie wrote:
> > It doesn't matter how many times you say you endorsed, you didn't or 
> > else you wouldn't be getting the error.  If you believe that Glassfish 
> > is the thing controlling the endorsement, which is quite likely, then 
> > you need to contact them and ask how to properly endorse libraries for 
> > that container.
>
> Hi
>
> Glassfish is nice enough to explicitely define which xml parser to use 
> by setting the system property javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory, 
> so any endorsement you make will not have any effect.
>
> To fix this, add a similar property to the domain.xml file:
>
> <jvm-options>-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl</jvm-options> 
>
>
> It's worth noting that this behavior also overrides the normal 
> META-INF/services method where you do not have to endorse anything.
>
> Regards,

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