Date of First Response: 2010-04-13 09:57:49
project_key: SOA

When starting SOA-P on IBM JDK the server generates an exception when it starts ESB deployer

08:20:57,432 ERROR [AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Create: name=EsbPropertyService state=Configured
javax.xml.stream.FactoryConfigurationError: Provider null not found
	at javax.xml.stream.FactoryFinder.newInstance(FactoryFinder.java:72)
	at javax.xml.stream.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:136)
	at javax.xml.stream.FactoryFinder.find(FactoryFinder.java:92)
	at javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory.newInstance(XMLInputFactory.java:136)
	at org.jboss.internal.soa.esb.util.XMLHelper.<clinit>(XMLHelper.java:669)
	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initializeImpl(Native Method)
	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:200)
	at org.jboss.soa.esb.common.JBossESBPropertyService.createService(JBossESBPropertyService.java:135)

The problem is that IBM JDK comes with its own implementation of StAX API - different from the one coming with SOA-P.

There are multiple workarounds to this problem
1) It is possible to start the server if run.conf contains peoperties necessary to be set to use IBM's implementation.
-Djavax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory=com.ibm.xml.xlxp.api.stax.XMLInputFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory=com.ibm.xml.xlxp.api.stax.XMLOutputFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.stream.XMLEventFactory=com.ibm.xml.xlxp.api.stax.XMLEventFactoryImpl

2) Enable properties mention in 1) in file {java.home}/lib/stax.properties

3) Copy jboss-as/lib/endorsed/stax-api.jar to {java.home}/lib/endorsed

We need to confirm that this is not issue related to SOA-P codebase. If it is unrelated we have to decide which of the solutions above is proper and document it.