Hi Dimitris, quite late with email checking, anyway the jbossws native uses classes from the xerces impl. Alessio Dimitris Andreadis wrote: > This came up from another irrelevant thread with Alessio making the > observation that > com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl > (Sun's JDK 1.6's default DocumentBuilderFactory) is really fast, so I > was wondering why we still need to bundle xercesImpl.jar in lib/endorsed? > > Are we referencing xerces implementation explicitly? > > /Dimitris > > PS > There was another comment on the performance cost of resolving the > name of the implementation for DocumentBuilderFactory to load, but I > didn't quite catch that.