~~ New XMP CS6 SDK Releases ~~

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Hi,
You can now find new versions of our XMP SDKs on Adobe Devnet:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp/
So please check  out the CS6 versions of the SDKs and post your feedback in this forum!
The prior versions are still listed.
Updates:
Updated XMP Specifications [version: April 2012]
New version of the XMP Toolkit SDK (c++)  [version: CS6]
Compiler Upgrade: Xcode 4.x, Visual Studio 2010 (VC10)
A plug-in SDK for XMPFiles that allows you to add custom file handlers, or replace existing file handlers with custom ones in XMPFiles
A new version of the file handler for RIFF-based formats that also support AIFF. The AVI handler still uses the old code, but WAVE and AIFF are based in the new file handler
New functions in XMPFiles that allows you to use your own I/O code in XMPFiles
Support of EXIF 2.3 properties
A new XMPFiles function, GetFileModDate(), that retrieves the most recent OS file modification date for the associated metadata of a file
Many bug fixes and minor improvements in XMPFiles
The XMP FileInfo SDK is now available in version CS6
Custom Panel Plugin for Flash builder 4.x
EVE Panel converter (to convert CS 2/3 panels)
Create generic panel without Action Script (XML only)
XMPCore Java is now is now available in version CS6 and seperated from the C++ toolkit  (see new Java section)Many bug fixes and minor improvements
The Adobe XMP Team

Answer 1

Hi,
i used the previous version of the java XMPCore. I tried to upgrade however i got the following exception (using java 1.5 and 1.6):
java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setFeature(Ljava/lang/String;Z)V
    at com.adobe.xmp.impl.XMPMetaParser.createDocumentBuilderFactory(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.xmp.impl.XMPMetaParser.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.xmp.XMPMetaFactory.parseFromBuffer(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.xmp.XMPMetaFactory.parseFromBuffer(Unknown Source)
On further investigation the problem is, that you are trying to call a method
factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
on an abstract class however you are not catching that error, as you propably intended to.
The code has been introduced into the new version:
class XMPMetaParser.java:
try
            // honor System parsing limits, e.g.
            // System.setProperty("entityExpansionLimit", "10");
            factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
        catch (Exception e)
            // Ignore IllegalArgumentException and ParserConfigurationException
            // in case the configured XML-Parser does not implement the feature.
The exception is of the type "Error" and thus won't be catched by the "catch (Exception)" block at this point. If you change the following to:
try
            // honor System parsing limits, e.g.
            // System.setProperty("entityExpansionLimit", "10");
            factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
        catch (Throwable t)
            // Ignore AbstractMethodError, IllegalArgumentException and ParserConfigurationException
            // in case the configured XML-Parser does not implement the feature.
or to
try
            // honor System parsing limits, e.g.
            // System.setProperty("entityExpansionLimit", "10");
            factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
        catch(Error e){
            // Ignore AbstractMethodError in case there is no implementation at all
        catch (Exception e)
            // Ignore IllegalArgumentException and ParserConfigurationException
            // in case the configured XML-Parser does not implement the feature.
Everything is working as aspected again...