dan costelloe wrote:
Greetings,
I've recently been tinkering with xml-security-1.4.2 and the experience so far
has left me with some questions. Perhaps someone on this list may be able to
shed some light:
1) (Sun) Java 1.6 seems to already contain an xml-security implementation. Which
version of the implementation is this?
Yes, v 1.3.1 (plus a few important bug fixes).
2a) Is it possible to use the xml-security-1.4.2 classes in a java application
so that the 1.4.2 classes take a higher preference than those in rt.jar? If so,
can this be done without using the -Xbootclasspath argument to the JVM?
Yes, place xmlsec.jar in the endorsed standards directory [1]. You will
also need to put the Apache commons logging jar [2] there as well, since
the Apache code uses a different logging mechanism than the JDK.
2b) Can it be done without the removal of the xml-security classes from rt.jar?
Yes, see above.
--Sean
1: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/standards/index.html
2: http://commons.apache.org/logging/
