JasperReports and Weblogic deployment issue

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!