by Taras Matyashovsky

Hello everyone,

Recently I added dependency to Jasper Reports 3.5.2 and my deployment on Weblogic 10.3 failed with exception similar to listed below

      java.lang.ClassCastException:

      weblogic.xml.jaxp.RegistryDocumentBuilderFactory

As far as I discoved later there can be 2 possible reasons for that. Jasper Reports has dependencies to xerces-impl and xml-apis which can cause conflict with libraries already included in Weblogic. For more details visit appropriate link.

Therefore correct appropriate pom.xml in order to exclude mentioned dependencies:

        < dependency >

            < groupid > jasperreports </ groupid >

            < artifactid > jasperreports </ artifactid >

            < exclusions >

                < exclusion >

                    < groupid > xerces </ groupid >

                    < artifactid > xercesImpl </ artifactid >

                </ exclusion >

                < exclusion >

                    < groupid > xml-apis < /groupid >

                    < artifactid > xml-apis < /artifactid >

                </ exclusion >

            < /exclusions >

         </ dependency >

Enjoy!