Index: src/main/org/jboss/axis/encoding/DeserializationContextImpl.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/jboss/jaxrpc/src/main/org/jboss/axis/encoding/DeserializationContextImpl.java,v
retrieving revision 1.1.2.1
diff -u -r1.1.2.1 DeserializationContextImpl.java
--- src/main/org/jboss/axis/encoding/DeserializationContextImpl.java	2 Mar 2005 14:29:04 -0000	1.1.2.1
+++ src/main/org/jboss/axis/encoding/DeserializationContextImpl.java	24 May 2005 11:27:46 -0000
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
             try
             {
                // cleanup - so that the parser can be reused.
-               parser.setProperty("http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", null);
+               parser.setProperty("http://xml.org/sax/properties/lexical-handler", nullLexicalHandler);
             }
             catch (SAXException se)
             {
@@ -1383,5 +1383,25 @@
    {
       return XMLUtils.getEmptyInputSource();
    }
+   
+   /** We only need one instance of this dummy handler to set into the parsers. */
+   private static final NullLexicalHandler nullLexicalHandler = new NullLexicalHandler();
+
+   /**
+    * It is illegal to set the lexical-handler property to null. To facilitate
+    * discarding the heavily loaded instance of DeserializationContextImpl from
+    * the SAXParser instance that is kept in the Stack maintained by XMLUtils
+    * we use this class.
+    */
+   private static class NullLexicalHandler implements LexicalHandler
+   {
+      public void startDTD(String arg0, String arg1, String arg2) throws SAXException {}
+   	  public void endDTD() throws SAXException {}
+   	  public void startEntity(String arg0) throws SAXException {}
+   	  public void endEntity(String arg0) throws SAXException {}
+   	  public void startCDATA() throws SAXException {}
+   	  public void endCDATA() throws SAXException {}
+   	  public void comment(char[] arg0, int arg1, int arg2) throws SAXException {}
+   } 
 }