perfsonar development work

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Hi,

The first try to embed AA into Java Web start version of perfsonarUI is facing the following problem. 

As I learnt from Candido, the AA classes need to use xerces parser, and for this purpose the java property "java.endorsed.dirs" has to be set to point to xerces classes.
This works fine when running locally (from command line or development environment as Eclipse), but does not work if the endorsed.dirs property is set in JNLP configuration, e.g. the line
<property name="java.endorsed.dirs" value="/jars/xalan"/>

has no effect on the application.  Apparently, setting endorsed.dirs property is considered security break in JWS and is NOT expected to work at all.
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6224429

You could try AA at psUI 0.11 playground, after launching Options menu and checking "Enable AA" option. Currently, it returns an openSAML error when trying to connect to edugain MDS, due to the reason explained above.

http://perfsonar.acad.bg/psui_0_11/perfsonar.jnlp

I am not sure if there is some other way to make the JWS use xerces parser necessary for AA classes.

I don't see an workaround here, except abandoning JWS for perfsonarUI. (There is also another reason for this).

Any ideas?

Best regards,
Nina