OpenSAML user discussion

[Michael <>]

Hello
I am running into a problem when trying to sign the SAML assertion on WebLogic
10.3. The application deployes as a war file. 
Here is the exception: 
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xml/security/Init 
at
org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.initializeXMLSecurity(DefaultBootstrap.java:103)

at org.opensaml.DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap(DefaultBootstrap.java:79) 
at servlets.CreateRequestServlet.(Unknown Source) 
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) 
......... 

This exception occurs when DefaultBootstrap attempts to load a default
configuration: 
DefaultBootstrap.bootstrap(); 

I did some home work - I tried all fixes that were mentioned on the different
forums: 
I created endorsed directories under the jre/lib and copied there the
following jares: 
opensaml-2.2.3.jar 
resolver-2.9.1.jar 
serializer-2.7.1.jar 
xalan-2.7.1.jar 
xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar 
xml-apis-2.9.1.jar 
xmlsec-2.0.jar 
I attached these jares to the classpath in the startWeblogic script and have
added the weblogic.class.path property with all nessessary jars attached to
it. 
Also I added the following jars to the WEB-INF/lib folder: 
catalina-root.jar 
commons-codec-1.3.jar 
jdom.jar 
opensaml-2.2.3.jar 
xmldsig.jar 
xmlsec-2.0.jar 
xmltooling-1.2.0.jar 
and updated weblogic.xml with the following part: 
<wls:container-descriptor> 
<wls:prefer-web-inf-classes>true</wls:prefer-web-inf-classes> 
</wls:container-descriptor> 
All these attempts led me to the same result - runtime exception. 
At this point I think that I need help to resolve this issue. 

Please, help... I am running out of time ...
 
Thank you,
 
Michael