OpenSAML user discussion

[Christoph Wagner <>]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Christoph Wagner wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Paul Hethmon wrote:
> 
>> On 7/13/10 2:36 PM, "Christoph Wagner" 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm want to use OpenSAML 2.3.1 in a Spring-based web app. I have all of 
>>> the
>>> required libraries in the WEB-INF/lib folder of my application, including
>>> xmltooling-1.2.1.jar, which contains both the
>>> org.opensaml.xml.parse.BasicParserPool and org.opensaml.xml.Configuration
>>> classes, yet I get the following exception message:
>> 
>> Did you endorse the required XML parser? The Sun JDK parser won't cut it.
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
> 
> Yes, I did. I put the jars from the endorsed directory of the distribution 
> into $CATALINA_HOME/lib/endorsed and set 
> JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS=$CATALINA_HOME/lib/endorsed in 
> $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh. That should do the trick, right?
> 
> Chris

Turns out this is NOT the way to endorse the libraries. They go in the 
$CATALINA_HOME/endorsed directory, which doesn't exist by default. 

Case closed.