Classpath Issue with xmlparserV2.jar in WAS 8.5.5

Question

I had a severe issue in WAS 8.5.5. I have included the xmlparserV2.jar in JVM classpath as per my requirement. I have restarted the WAS and server start to fail

Answer 1

The JAR file includes a META-INF\services directory which includes files that will override the XML processors being used by your server.

From Java SE javadoc

Use the Services API (as detailed in the JAR specification), if available, to determine the classname. The Services API will look for a classname in the file META-INF/services/javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory in jars available to the runtime.

I used 7-zip to delete the files from the META-INF\services and used that JAR instead. My XML Object parsing works now and everything else is un-effected.