Note: This error has already been discussed here and various solutions also have been suggested to get rid of jars that conflicts with java-8's default implementation.
My question is an extension to that problem.
For the sake of completeness, here is the stacktrace that i am also facing, when i run the code with java-8:
Feb 29, 2016 12:06:41 PM com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.util.XmlFactory createParserFactory
SEVERE: null
org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException: http://javax.xml.XMLConstants/feature/secure-processing
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.setFeature(AbstractSAXParser.java:1487)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.setFeatures(SAXParserImpl.java:145)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.<init>(SAXParserImpl.java:128)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl.newSAXParserImpl(SAXParserFactoryImpl.java:112)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl.setFeature(SAXParserFactoryImpl.java:140)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.util.XmlFactory.createParserFactory(XmlFactory.java:121)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.getXMLReader(UnmarshallerImpl.java:139)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.unmarshaller.UnmarshallerImpl.unmarshal(UnmarshallerImpl.java:276)
To prove that conflicting jar(s) are indeed the problem (as described in the link shared earlier), I did pull out the relevant code into a different project and successfully ran the code using java-8 (i.e. without any errors) with bare minimum number of jars. So far so good.
And now the query:
In my case, my legacy project uses about 2-3 known conflicting jars used for various reasons. However, there is this new module which uses annotation driven jaxb for oxm processing.
The problem is : I can not get rid of those old and conflicting jars as that pretty much makes 10% of the codebase uncompilable. However, at the same time, i do not wish to get rid of the jaxb/oxm implementation in the new module as well.
Is there a way by which i can somehow tell JVM to ignore old jars and to use the default implementation that is shipped with java-8 whenever the code execution goes through this new module?
An alternative approach could be to use the StAX parser to get the XML as an XMLStreamReader and then have JAXB unmarshal that.
XMLInputFactory xmlInputFactory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
XMLStreamReader xmlStreamReader = xmlInputFactory.createXMLStreamReader(reader);
unmarshaller.unmarshal(xmlStreamReader);