org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file for *VALID* XML

Question

I am getting very strange \"Premature end of file.\" exception for last few days on one of our servers. The same configuration XML works fine on another server. We

Answer 1

This exception only happens if you are parsing an empty String/empty byte array.

below is a snippet on how to reproduce it:

String xml = ""; // <-- deliberately an empty string.
ByteArrayInputStream xmlStream = new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes());
Unmarshaller u = JAXBContext.newInstance(...)
u.setSchema(...);
u.unmarshal( xmlStream ); // <-- here it will fail