Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

In addition to Walter's comments, let me try to add a bit more.

If you are using JBoss, make sure you are placing the Xerces and Xalan 
jars into JBoss's endorsed directory, which is not necessarily the same 
things at the JDK's endorsed directory.  If you have the JDK using one 
implementation and JBoss using the classes from another you'll have 
issues (no big surprise there).

Also you need to endorse these libraries IF you're running Sun's JDK. 
Things like IBM's and BEA's JVM's are not known to have this problem, 
but they aren't tested much by us either.  I may be the only one who 
tries them and that's only on occasion.  In addition to memory leaks 
though I recently ran across a bug in JDK 1.5.0, Update 5, when parsing 
attributes with QName values.

So the short answer is that Sun's implementation is simply broken.

Ramanathan, Subbu wrote:
> We are using Shibboleth in JBoss 4.0.2 with JDK 1.5. We still seem to
> need the endorsed XML libraries for Shibboleth to run properly.  Can
> someone you please provide some concrete answers for: (1)  Who has
> provided these libraries? (2)  What is different between these and
> the default ones that come with JDK 1.5?
>
> The reason why I ask:  Our client's web app breaks when we use these
> jar files.  They need some concrete answers before they can
> comfortably change their code to work with these libraries.
>
> Your answers to these will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Subbu Ramanathan

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