Use JAXP Implementation Provided by the JDK in JBoss EAP

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Disable the implementation included with the application server

  • Applications throws exception:

    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Property 'http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/property/accessExternalDTD' is not recognized.
    at org.apache.xerces@2.12.0.SP03-redhat-00001//org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl.setAttribute(DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl.java:144)
    at __redirected.__DocumentBuilderFactory.setAttribute(__DocumentBuilderFactory.java:125)

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 6 or 7
  • Java/JDK (Java Development Kit)
    • 8
    • For Java 11 or later, see Root Cause.
  • Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)

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