Index: java/project.properties
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--- java/project.properties	(revision 417195)
+++ java/project.properties	(working copy)
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 #                JUnit
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------
 # explicit setting of Sax parser as below is a hack to avoid Junit from loading its own parsers ignoring maven.test.excludeXmlApis
-maven.junit.jvmargs=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
+# explicit setting of the SchemaFactory class as the default one in Java 5 does not support schema-full-checking and honour-all-schemaLocations features
+maven.junit.jvmargs=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser -Djavax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory:http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory
 maven.junit.fork=yes 
 maven.test.excludeXmlApis=yes
 #maven.junit.dir=${basedir}/modules/core