Packaging Xerces in war causes JSF ClassCastException on SAXParserFactory ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-685 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-685 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: JSF Reporter: Brad Maxwell Assignee: Brad Maxwell Fix For: Awaiting Volunteers Packaging Xerces in war causes JSF ClassCastException on SAXParserFactory ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost]. (main) Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl cannot be cast to javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance(SAXParserFactory.java:128) at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener$WebXmlProcessor.getConfiguredFactory(ConfigureListener.java:702) at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener$WebXmlProcessor.scanForFacesServlet(ConfigureListener.java:674) at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener$WebXmlProcessor.<init>(ConfigureListener.java:648) at com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener.contextInitialized(ConfigureListener.java:156) at org.jboss.web.jsf.integration.config.JBossJSFConfigureListener.contextInitialized(JBossJSFConfigureListener.java:60) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3910) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4389) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeployInternal(TomcatDeployment.java:321) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment.performDeploy(TomcatDeployment.java:145) at org.jboss.web.deployers.AbstractWarDeployment.start(AbstractWarDeployment.java:461) at org.jboss.web.deployers.WebModule.startModule(WebModule.java:118)