Solution for secure-processing org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException causing java.lang.IllegalStateException running inside Tomcat

Question

I\'m facing this exception when receiving an Xml and trying to parse it. The code responsible for that is well tested when running as an standalone application. However I\'m

Answer 1

Well, this worked for me: Added below to my tomcat configuration arguments: -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory="com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl"

Answer 2

I know this is an old question. But just updating it if it is of any help to others.. We had a similar issue recently while upgradig to java 8 with JBOSS 3.2.6. The cause of the issue was an old xercesImpl.jar. We upgraded to xercesImol-2.9.1.jar and the issue was resolved.

Answer 3

I had faced similar issue, this issue occurs when there is big difference in versions of xerces jar and xercesImpl jar. To solve this, I used xerces-2.9.0 and xercesImpl-2.9.1 and the issue gone.