http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/external/: xml-commons provides an Apache-hosted set of DOM, SAX, and JAXP interfaces for use in other xml-based projects. Our hope is that we can standardize on both a common version and packaging scheme for these critical XML standards interfaces to make the lives of both our developers and users easier. The External Components portion of xml-commons contains interfaces that are defined by external standards organizations. For DOM, that's the W3C; for SAX it's David Megginson and sax.sourceforge.net; for JAXP it's Sun. 
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package org.xml.sax.helpers;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.security.AccessController;
import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
import java.security.PrivilegedActionException;
import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction;


This class is duplicated for each JAXP subpackage so keep it in sync.
It is package private and therefore is not exposed as part of the JAXP
API.
Security related methods that only work on J2SE 1.2 and newer.

/**
 * This class is duplicated for each JAXP subpackage so keep it in sync.
 * It is package private and therefore is not exposed as part of the JAXP
 * API.
 *
 * Security related methods that only work on J2SE 1.2 and newer.
 */
final class SecuritySupport {
    
    private SecuritySupport() {}

    static ClassLoader getContextClassLoader() {
	return (ClassLoader)
		AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() {
	    public Object run() {
		ClassLoader cl = null;
		try {
		    cl = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
		} catch (SecurityException ex) { }
		return cl;
	    }
	});
    }

    static String getSystemProperty(final String propName) {
	return (String)
            AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() {
                public Object run() {
                    return System.getProperty(propName);
                }
            });
    }

    static FileInputStream getFileInputStream(final File file)
        throws FileNotFoundException
    {
	try {
            return (FileInputStream)
                AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedExceptionAction() {
                    public Object run() throws FileNotFoundException {
                        return new FileInputStream(file);
                    }
                });
	} catch (PrivilegedActionException e) {
	    throw (FileNotFoundException)e.getException();
	}
    }

    static InputStream getResourceAsStream(final ClassLoader cl,
                                           final String name)
    {
        return (InputStream)
            AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() {
                public Object run() {
                    InputStream ris;
                    if (cl == null) {
                        ris = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream(name);
                    } else {
                        ris = cl.getResourceAsStream(name);
                    }
                    return ris;
                }
            });
    }
}