The Shibboleth V1 software has reached its End of Life and is no longer supported. This documentation is available for historical purposes only.

TomcatOutOfMemoryError

Due to a known bug in the Suns Xerxes and Xalan packages, the IdP issues a slow memory leak. For this reason Shibboleth comes with several Java jarfiles and should be used instead of the obsolete classes that Sun includes with their JVM. Tomcat 5.0.x additionally requires that endorsed Xerces libraries packaged with it, xercesImpl.jar, xml-apis.jar, and xmlParserAPIs.jar, be deleted first. Use a command like the following:

cp /opt/shibboleth-idp-1.3a-install/endorsed/*.jar /usr/local/tomcat/common/endorsed