Error unmarshalling xml in java-8 “secure-processing org.xml.sax.SAXNotRecognizedException causing java.lang.IllegalStateException”

Question

The following code worked fine in Java 7

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;

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Answer 1

Both Bernard and Blaise's answers were very helpful. In my case, since I am using JDK 7, the solution was to exclude the xerces subdependency that was being included by one of my dependencies:

  org.apache.axis
  axis
  1.4.1-SNAPSHOT
  
    
      xerces
      xercesImpl
    
    
      xerces
      xmlParserAPIs