How to make Tomcat use the Xerces XML parser instead of the Sun JAXP XML parser?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=525561 Created: Oct 19, 2001 Modified: 2001-11-15 15:27:44.912 Author: Alex Chaffee (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=3) Question originally posed by suraj R (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=497669 You can do one of two things: • Replace the Tomcat system files jaxp.jar and parser.jar (located in TOMCAT_HOME/lib) — that is, delete them and install the Xerces jars in their place • Include your preferred XML parser jars (xerces.jar and/or xalan.jar) inside your web application’s WEB-INF/lib The second method is preferred, since then you can run other web applications — and Tomcat itself — without worrying that they’re incompatible with Xalan/Xerces (or whatever your favorite XML parser is). However, it has been known to fail, since Classloader munging is something of a black art and hasn’t always been implemented correctly in Tomcat (or Java). So try #2 first, then if that fails, try #1.
