Investigate use of standard JAXP in OpenSAML 3.0?, was Re: Deploy Shib2 IdP in Glassfish 3

[Philip Durbin]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> On 6/19/13 11:36 AM, "Farrukh Najmi" <farrukh at wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote:
>>I have gathered so far is that direct use of xerces classes in opensaml
>>(and possibly IdP) is not a good fit with Glassfish which expects that
>>JAXP implementation provided by the JDK to be used. The kludge /
>>workaround I list above seems to work though I need
>> to test this further. The open question is whether Shib projects can and
>>should consider removing the explicit dependency on xerces and instead
>>rely on standard JAXP API.
>
> The implementation of JAXP has historically been a broken mess. In the
> last few years that may be cleaned up, but we aren't going to spend time
> testing that assumption until 3.0.

Would it be appropriate to add an issue called something like
"Investigate use of standard JAXP" to this project in the issue
tracker:

OpenSAML - Java: 3.0.0 - Shibboleth JIRA -
https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/OSJ/fixforversion/10293

?

Phil

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