Adapted project directory structure to suit the new maven based build process.

git-svn-id: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/svn/moa-idspss/trunk@909 d688527b-c9ab-4aba-bd8d-4036d912da1d

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diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LogMsg.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LogMsg.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d04fc72d..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LogMsg.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging;
-
-/**
- * A unified message type to log messages from inside the MOA subsystem.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class LogMsg {
-  /** The message to log. */
-  private Object message;
-
-  /**
-   * Create a <code>LogMsg</code> object.
-   * 
-   * @param message The actual message to log. May be <code>null</code>. 
-   */
-  public LogMsg(Object message) {
-    this.message = message;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Convert this log message to a <code>String</code>.
-   * 
-   * @return The <code>String</code> representation of this log message. 
-   */
-  public String toString() {
-    StringBuffer msg = new StringBuffer();
-    LoggingContext ctx =
-      LoggingContextManager.getInstance().getLoggingContext();
-    String tid = ctx != null ? ctx.getTransactionID() : null;
-    String nodeId = ctx != null ? ctx.getNodeID() : null;
-    
-    msg.append("TID=");
-    msg.append(tid != null ? tid : "<null>");
-    msg.append(" NID=");
-    msg.append(nodeId != null ? nodeId : "<null>");
-    msg.append(" MSG=");
-    msg.append(message != null ? message.toString() : "<null>");
-
-    return msg.toString();
-  }
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/Logger.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/Logger.java
deleted file mode 100644
index eb7aa5634..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/Logger.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,175 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging;
-
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-
-/**
- * A utility class acting as a facade to the logging subsystem.
- * 
- * Configure the logging defaultHierarchy that the <code>Logger</code> uses by
- * calling <code>setHierarchy</code> once before calling any of the logging
- * output functions.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class Logger {
-  
-  /** The default logging hierarchy. */
-  private static String defaultHierarchy = "";
-  
-  /**
-   * Get the <code>Log</code> object for the default hierarchy.
-   * 
-   * @return The <code>Log</code> object to write log messages to.
-   */
-  private static Log getLog() {
-    return LogFactory.getLog(defaultHierarchy);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Get the <code>Log</code> object for a given hierarchy.
-   * 
-   * @param hierarchy The logging hierarchy for which to return the logger. 
-   * @return The <code>Log</code> object to write log messages to.
-   */
-  private static Log getLog(String hierarchy) {
-    return LogFactory.getLog(hierarchy);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Set the default hierarchy to which the <code>Logger</code> should send its
-   * logging output.
-   * @param hierarchy The logging defaultHierarchy.
-   */
-  public static void setHierarchy(String hierarchy) {
-    defaultHierarchy = hierarchy;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Test, if the trace log level is enabled.
-   * 
-   * @return boolean <code>true</code>, if tracing output is enabled
-   * <code>false</code> otherwise.
-   */
-  public static boolean isTraceEnabled() {
-    return getLog().isTraceEnabled();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Test, if the trace log level is enabled for a given hierarchy.
-   * 
-   * @param hierarchy requested log hierarchy
-   * @return boolean <code>true</code>, if tracing output is enabled
-   * <code>false</code> otherwise.
-   */
-  public static boolean isTraceEnabled(String hierarchy) {
-    return getLog(hierarchy).isTraceEnabled();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Trace a message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to trace.
-   */
-  public static void trace(Object message) {
-    getLog().trace(message);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Test, if the debug log level is enabled.
-   * 
-   * @return boolean <code>true</code>, if debug output is enabled
-   * <code>false</code> otherwise.
-   */
-  public static boolean isDebugEnabled() {
-    return getLog().isDebugEnabled();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Test, if the debug log level is enabled for a given hierarchy.
-   * 
-   * @param hierarchy requested log hierarchy
-   * @return boolean <code>true</code>, if debug output is enabled
-   * <code>false</code> otherwise.
-   */
-  public static boolean isDebugEnabled(String hierarchy) {
-    return getLog(hierarchy).isDebugEnabled();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Log a debug message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   */
-  public static void debug(Object message) {
-    getLog().debug(message);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Log an info message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   */
-  public static void info(Object message) {
-    getLog().info(message);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Log a warning message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   */
-  public static void warn(Object message) {
-    getLog().warn(message);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Log a warning message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   * @param t An exception that may be the cause of the warning.
-   */
-  public static void warn(Object message, Throwable t) {
-    getLog().warn(message, t);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Log an error message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   */
-  public static void error(Object message) {
-    getLog().error(message);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Log an error message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   * @param t An exception that may be the cause of the error.
-   */
-  public static void error(Object message, Throwable t) {
-    getLog().error(message, t);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Log a fatal error message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   */
-  public static void fatal(Object message) {
-    getLog().fatal(message);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Log a fatal error message.
-   * 
-   * @param message The message to log.
-   * @param t An exception that may be the cause of the error.
-   */
-  public static void fatal(Object message, Throwable t) {
-    getLog().fatal(message, t);
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LoggingContext.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LoggingContext.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 42d8db06e..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LoggingContext.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging;
-
-/**
- * Encapsulates contextual information (i.e. per request information) for
- * logging purposes.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class LoggingContext {
-  /** The name of the node ID system property. */
-  public static final String NODE_ID_PROPERTY = "moa.node-id";
-  
-  /** The current transaction ID. */
-  private String transactionID;
-  /** The node ID. */
-  private String nodeID;
-  
-  /**
-   * Create a new <code>LoggingContext</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param transactionID The transaction ID. May be <code>null</code>.
-   */
-  public LoggingContext(String transactionID) {
-    this.transactionID = transactionID;
-    this.nodeID = System.getProperty(NODE_ID_PROPERTY);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Return the transaction ID.
-   * 
-   * @return The transaction ID.
-   */
-  public String getTransactionID() {
-    return transactionID;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Return the node ID.
-   * 
-   * @return The node ID.
-   */
-  public String getNodeID() {
-    return nodeID;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LoggingContextManager.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LoggingContextManager.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bbe6caa1..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/logging/LoggingContextManager.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging;
-
-/**
- * Provides each thread with a single instance of <code>LoggingContext</code>.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class LoggingContextManager {
-  /** The single instance of this class. */
-  private static LoggingContextManager instance = null;
-  
-  /** The <code>LoggingContext</code> for each thread. */
-  private ThreadLocal context;
-  
-  /**
-   * Get the single instance of the <code>LoggingContextManager</code> class.
-   * 
-   * @return LoggingContextManager The single instance.
-   */
-  public static synchronized LoggingContextManager getInstance() {
-    if (instance == null) {
-      instance = new LoggingContextManager();
-    }
-    return instance;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Creates a new <code>LoggingContextManager</code>.
-   * 
-   * Protected to disallow direct instantiation.
-   */
-  protected LoggingContextManager() {
-    context = new ThreadLocal();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Set the <code>LoggingContext</code> context for the current thread.
-   * 
-   * @param ctx The <code>LoggingContext</code> for the current thread.
-   */
-  public void setLoggingContext(LoggingContext ctx) {
-    context.set(ctx);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Return the <code>LoggingContext</code> for the current thread.
-   * 
-   * @return LoggingContext The <code>LoggingContext</code> for the current
-   * thread, or <code>null</code> if none has been set.
-   */
-  public LoggingContext getLoggingContext() {
-    return (LoggingContext) context.get();
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Base64Utils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Base64Utils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index ad29180a6..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Base64Utils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-
-import iaik.utils.Base64InputStream;
-import iaik.utils.Base64OutputStream;
-
-/**
- * Utitility functions for encoding/decoding Base64 strings.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class Base64Utils {
-
-  /**
-   * Read the bytes encoded in a Base64 encoded <code>String</code>. 
-   * 
-   * @param base64String The <code>String</code> containing the Base64 encoded
-   * bytes.
-   * @param ignoreInvalidChars Whether to ignore invalid Base64 characters.
-   * @return byte[] The raw bytes contained in the <code>base64String</code>.
-   * @throws IOException Failed to read the Base64 data.
-   */
-  public static byte[] decode(String base64String, boolean ignoreInvalidChars)
-    throws IOException {
-
-    Base64InputStream in =
-      new Base64InputStream(
-        new ByteArrayInputStream(base64String.getBytes("UTF-8")),
-        ignoreInvalidChars);
-    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    byte[] bytes = new byte[256];
-    int bytesRead;
-
-    while ((bytesRead = in.read(bytes)) > 0) {
-      out.write(bytes, 0, bytesRead);
-    }
-
-    return out.toByteArray();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Read the bytes encoded in a Base64 encoded <code>String</code> and provide
-   * them via an <code>InputStream</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param base64String The <code>String</code> containing the Base64 encoded
-   * bytes.
-   * @param ignoreInvalidChars Whether to ignore invalid Base64 characters.
-   * @return The <code>InputStream</code> from which the binary content of the
-   * <code>base64String</code> can be read.
-   */
-  public static InputStream decodeToStream(
-    String base64String,
-    boolean ignoreInvalidChars) {
-
-    try {
-      ByteArrayInputStream bin = 
-        new ByteArrayInputStream(base64String.getBytes("UTF-8"));
-      Base64InputStream in = new Base64InputStream(bin, ignoreInvalidChars);
-      
-      return in;
-    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-      // cannot occur, since UTF-8 is required to be supported by every JRE
-      return null; 
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Convert a byte array to a Base64 encoded <code>String</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param bytes The bytes to encode.
-   * @return String The Base64 encoded representation of the <code>bytes</code>.
-   * @throws IOException Failed to write the bytes as Base64 data.
-   */
-  public static String encode(byte[] bytes) throws IOException {
-    return encode(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes));
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Convert the data contained in the given stream to a Base64 encoded
-   * <code>String</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param inputStream The stream containing the data to encode.
-   * @return The Base64 encoded data of <code>inputStream</code>, as a 
-   * <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws IOException Failed to convert the data in the stream.
-   */
-  public static String encode(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
-    ByteArrayOutputStream byteStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    Base64OutputStream base64Stream = new Base64OutputStream(byteStream, "\n".getBytes());
-    byte[] bytes = new byte[256];
-    int bytesRead;
-
-    while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(bytes)) > 0) {
-      base64Stream.write(bytes, 0, bytesRead);
-    }
-    base64Stream.flush();
-    base64Stream.close();
-    inputStream.close();
-
-    return byteStream.toString("UTF-8");
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/BoolUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/BoolUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index fcd39b4dd..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/BoolUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-/**
- * Utility class for parsing XML schema boolean values.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class BoolUtils {
-  
-  /**
-   * Return the boolean value of an <code>xsd:boolean</code> type of DOM 
-   * element/attribute.
-   * 
-   * @param boolStr The value of the <code>xsd:boolean</code> element/attribute.
-   * @return <code>true</code>, if <code>boolStr</code> equals 
-   * <code>&quot;true&quot;</code> or <code>&quot;1;&quot;</code>. Otherwise,
-   * <code>false</code> is returned.
-   */
-  public static boolean valueOf(String boolStr) {
-    return "true".equals(boolStr) || "1".equals(boolStr);
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/CollectionUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/CollectionUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 5329dcbd2..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/CollectionUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-
-/**
- * Various utility methods for dealing with <code>java.util.Collection</code> 
- * classes. 
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class CollectionUtils {
-  
-  /**
-   * Convert a <code>List</code> of <code>Number</code> objects to an 
-   * <code>int</code> array.
-   * 
-   * @param nums The <code>List</code> containing the numbers whose integer
-   * value to put into the result. 
-   * @return The <code>int</code> values of the <code>Number</code>s contained
-   * in <code>nums</code>.
-   */
-  public static int[] toIntArray(List nums) {
-    int[] result = new int[nums.size()];
-    Iterator iter;
-    int i;
-    
-    for (i = 0, iter = nums.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); i++) {
-      Number num = (Number) iter.next();
-      result[i] = num.intValue();
-    }
-    
-    return result;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Constants.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Constants.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c1314296..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Constants.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,318 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.HashMap;
-
-/**
- * Contains various constants used throughout the system.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public interface Constants {
-  /** Root location of the schema files. */
-  public static final String SCHEMA_ROOT = "/resources/schemas/";
-
-  /** URI of the Widerrufregister XML namespace. */
-  public static final String WRR_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/moavv/20041223";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the Widerrufregister XML namespace */
-  public static final String WRR_PREFIX = "wrr";
-
-  /** URI of the StandardTextBlock XML namespace. */
-  public static final String STB_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/standardtextblock/20041105#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the Mandate XML namespace */
-  public static final String STB_PREFIX = "stb";
-
-  /** URI of the MOA XML namespace. */
-  public static final String MOA_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/moa/20020822#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the Mandate XML namespace */
-  public static final String MD_PREFIX = "md";
-
-  /** URI of the Mandate XML namespace. */
-  public static final String MD_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/mandates/20040701#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the Mandate XML namespace */
-  public static final String MVV_PREFIX = "mvv";
-
-  /** URI of the Mandate XML namespace. */
-  public static final String MVV_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/moavv/app2mvv/20041125";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the MandateCheckProfile XML namespace */
-  public static final String MDP_PREFIX = "mdp";
-
-  /** URI of the Mandate XML namespace. */
-  public static final String MDP_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/mandateprofile/20041105#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the MOA XML namespace */
-  public static final String MOA_PREFIX = "moa";
-
-  /** Local location of the MOA XML schema definition. */
-  public static final String MOA_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "MOA-SPSS-1.3.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the MOA configuration XML namespace. */
-  public static final String MOA_CONFIG_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/moaconfig/20021122#";
-
-  /** URI of the MOA ID configuration XML namespace. */
-  public static final String MOA_ID_CONFIG_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.buergerkarte.at/namespaces/moaconfig#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the MOA configuration XML namespace */
-  public static final String MOA_CONFIG_PREFIX = "conf";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the MOA configuration XML namespace */
-  public static final String MOA_ID_CONFIG_PREFIX = "confID";
-
-  /** Local location of the MOA configuration XML schema definition. */
-  public static final String MOA_CONFIG_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "MOA-SPSS-config-1.3.xsd";
-
-  /** Local location of the MOA ID configuration XML schema definition. */
-  public static final String MOA_ID_CONFIG_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "MOA-ID-Configuration-1.4.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the Security Layer 1.0 namespace. */
-  public static final String SL10_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.buergerkarte.at/namespaces/securitylayer/20020225#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the Security Layer 1.0 XML namespace */
-  public static final String SL10_PREFIX = "sl10";
-
-  /** Local location of the Security Layer 1.0 XML schema definition */
-  public static final String SL10_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "Core.20020225.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the Security Layer 1.1 XML namespace */
-  public static final String SL11_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.buergerkarte.at/namespaces/securitylayer/20020831#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the Security Layer 1.1 XML namespace */
-  public static final String SL11_PREFIX = "sl11";
-
-  /** Local location of the Security Layer 1.1 XML schema definition */
-  public static final String SL11_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "Core.20020831.xsd";
-  
-  /** URI of the Security Layer 1.2 XML namespace */
-  public static final String SL12_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.buergerkarte.at/namespaces/securitylayer/1.2#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the Security Layer 1.2 XML namespace */
-  public static final String SL12_PREFIX = "sl";
-
-  /** Local location of the Security Layer 1.2 XML schema definition */
-  public static final String SL12_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "Core-1.2.xsd";
-  
-  /** URI of the ECDSA XML namespace */
-  public static final String ECDSA_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#";
-  
-  /** Prefix used for ECDSA namespace */
-  public static final String ECDSA_PREFIX = "ecdsa";
-
-  /** Local location of ECDSA XML schema definition */
-  public static final String ECDSA_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "ECDSAKeyValue.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the PersonData XML namespace. */
-  public static final String PD_NS_URI =
-    "http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/persondata/20020228#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the PersonData XML namespace */
-  public static final String PD_PREFIX = "pr";
-
-//  /** Local location of the PersonData XML schema definition */
-//  public static final String PD_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-//    SCHEMA_ROOT + "PersonData.xsd";
-  
-  /** Local location of the PersonData XML schema definition */
-  public static final String PD_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "PersonData_20_en_moaWID.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the SAML namespace. */
-  public static final String SAML_NS_URI =
-    "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the SAML XML namespace */
-  public static final String SAML_PREFIX = "saml";
-
-  /** Local location of the SAML XML schema definition. */
-  public static final String SAML_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "cs-sstc-schema-assertion-01.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the SAML request-response protocol namespace. */
-  public static final String SAMLP_NS_URI =
-    "urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:protocol";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the SAML request-response protocol namespace */
-  public static final String SAMLP_PREFIX = "samlp";
-
-  /** Local location of the SAML request-response protocol schema definition. */
-  public static final String SAMLP_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "cs-sstc-schema-protocol-01.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the XML namespace. */
-  public static final String XML_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the XML namespace */
-  public static final String XML_PREFIX = "xml";
-
-  /** Local location of the XML schema definition. */
-  public static final String XML_SCHEMA_LOCATION = SCHEMA_ROOT + "xml.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the XMLNS namespace */
-  public static final String XMLNS_NS_URI = "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the XSI namespace */
-  public static final String XSI_PREFIX = "xsi";
-
-  /** Local location of the XSI schema definition. */
-  public static final String XSI_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "XMLSchema-instance.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the XSI XMLNS namespace */
-  public static final String XSI_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-
-  /** URI of the XSLT XML namespace */
-  public static final String XSLT_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the XSLT XML namespace */
-  public static final String XSLT_PREFIX = "xsl";
-
-  /** URI of the XMLDSig XML namespace. */
-  public static final String DSIG_NS_URI = "http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the XMLDSig XML namespace */
-  public static final String DSIG_PREFIX = "dsig";
-
-  /** Local location of the XMLDSig XML schema. */
-  public static final String DSIG_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "xmldsig-core-schema.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the XMLDSig XPath Filter XML namespace. */
-  public static final String DSIG_FILTER2_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2";
-
-  /** Prefix used for the XMLDSig XPath Filter XML namespace */
-  public static final String DSIG_FILTER2_PREFIX = "dsig-filter2";
-
-  /** Local location of the XMLDSig XPath Filter XML schema definition. */
-  public static final String DSIG_FILTER2_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "xmldsig-filter2.xsd";
-
-  /** URI of the Exclusive Canonicalization XML namespace */
-  public static final String DSIG_EC_NS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#";
-    
-  /** Prefix used for the Exclusive Canonicalization XML namespace */
-  public static final String DSIG_EC_PREFIX = "ec";
-
-  /** Local location of the Exclusive Canonicalizaion XML schema definition */
-  public static final String DSIG_EC_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-    SCHEMA_ROOT + "exclusive-canonicalization.xsd";
-
-	/** URI of the XMLLoginParameterResolver Configuration XML namespace */
-	public static final String XMLLPR_NS_URI="http://reference.e-government.gv.at/namespace/moa/20020822#/xmllpr20030814";
-
-	/** Local location of the XMLLoginParameterResolver Configuration XML schema definition */
-	public static final String XMLLPR_SCHEMA_LOCATION =
-		SCHEMA_ROOT + "MOAIdentities.xsd";
-
-
-  /**
-   * Contains all namespaces and local schema locations for XML schema
-   * definitions relevant for MOA. For use in validating XML parsers.
-   */
-  public static final String ALL_SCHEMA_LOCATIONS =
-    (MOA_NS_URI + " " + MOA_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (MOA_CONFIG_NS_URI + " " + MOA_CONFIG_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (MOA_ID_CONFIG_NS_URI + " " + MOA_ID_CONFIG_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (SL10_NS_URI + " " + SL10_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (SL11_NS_URI + " " + SL11_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (SL12_NS_URI + " " + SL12_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (ECDSA_NS_URI + " " + ECDSA_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (PD_NS_URI + " " + PD_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (SAML_NS_URI + " " + SAML_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (SAMLP_NS_URI + " " + SAMLP_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (XML_NS_URI + " " + XML_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (XSI_NS_URI + " " + XSI_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (DSIG_NS_URI + " " + DSIG_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (DSIG_FILTER2_NS_URI + " " + DSIG_FILTER2_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (DSIG_EC_NS_URI + " " + DSIG_EC_SCHEMA_LOCATION + " ")
-      + (XMLLPR_NS_URI + " " + XMLLPR_SCHEMA_LOCATION);
-
-  /** URN prefix for bPK and wbPK. */
-  public static final String URN_PREFIX = "urn:publicid:gv.at";
-  
-  /** URN prefix for context dependent id. */
-  public static final String URN_PREFIX_CDID = URN_PREFIX + ":cdid";
-  
-  /** URN prefix for context dependent id (bPK). */
-  public static final String URN_PREFIX_BPK = URN_PREFIX_CDID + "+bpk";
-
-  /** URN prefix for context dependent id (HPI). */
-  public static final String URN_PREFIX_HPI = URN_PREFIX_CDID + "+EHSP";
-  
-  /** URN prefix for context dependent id (wbPK). */
-  public static final String URN_PREFIX_WBPK = URN_PREFIX + ":wbpk";
-  
-  /** URN prefix for context dependent id. */
-  public static final String URN_PREFIX_BASEID = URN_PREFIX + ":baseid";
-  
-  /** Security Layer manifest type URI. */
-  public static final String SL_MANIFEST_TYPE_URI =
-    "http://www.buergerkarte.at/specifications/Security-Layer/20020225#SignatureManifest";
-
-  /** URI of the SHA1 digest algorithm */
-  public static final String SHA1_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1";
-
-  /** URI of the Canonical XML algorithm */
-  public static final String C14N_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315";
-
-  /** URI of the Canoncial XML with comments algorithm */
-  public static final String C14N_WITH_COMMENTS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315#WithComments";
-
-  /** URI of the Exclusive Canonical XML algorithm */
-  public static final String EXC_C14N_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#";
-  
-  /** URI of the Exclusive Canonical XML with commments algorithm */
-  public static final String EXC_C14N_WITH_COMMENTS_URI =
-    "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n#WithComments";
-    
-  //
-  // Local names for elements of the MOA SPSS schema
-  //
-  
-  /** 
-   * Local name of request for creating an XML signature.
-   */
-  public static final String MOA_SPSS_CREATE_XML_REQUEST = "CreateXMLSignatureRequest";
-  
-  /** 
-   * Local name of request for verifying an XML signature.
-   */
-  public static final String MOA_SPSS_VERIFY_XML_REQUEST = "VerifiyXMLSignatureRequest";
-  
-  /** 
-   * A map used to map namespace prefixes to namespace URIs 
-   */ 
-  public static HashMap nSMap = new HashMap(5);
-   
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/DOMUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/DOMUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 5be0bb500..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/DOMUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,971 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.HashSet;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.Vector;
-
-import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
-import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
-import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
-import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
-import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
-import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
-import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
-import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
-import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
-
-import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
-import org.w3c.dom.Document;
-import org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragment;
-import org.w3c.dom.Element;
-import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
-import org.w3c.dom.Node;
-import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
-
-import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;
-import org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser;
-import org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLGrammarPreparser;
-import org.apache.xerces.util.SymbolTable;
-import org.apache.xerces.util.XMLGrammarPoolImpl;
-import org.apache.xerces.xni.grammars.XMLGrammarDescription;
-import org.apache.xerces.xni.grammars.XMLGrammarPool;
-import org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
-import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-
-
-import at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging.Logger;
-
-/**
- * Various utility functions for handling XML DOM trees.
- * 
- * The parsing methods in this class make use of some features internal to the
- * Xerces DOM parser, mainly for performance reasons. As soon as JAXP
- * (currently at version 1.2) is better at schema handling, it should be used as
- * the parser interface.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class DOMUtils {
-
-  /** Feature URI for namespace aware parsing. */
-  private static final String NAMESPACES_FEATURE =
-    "http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces";
-  /** Feature URI for validating parsing. */
-  private static final String VALIDATION_FEATURE =
-    "http://xml.org/sax/features/validation";
-  /** Feature URI for schema validating parsing. */
-  private static final String SCHEMA_VALIDATION_FEATURE =
-    "http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema";
-  /** Feature URI for normalization of element/attribute values. */
-  private static final String NORMALIZED_VALUE_FEATURE =
-    "http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema/normalized-value";
-  /** Feature URI for parsing ignorable whitespace. */
-  private static final String INCLUDE_IGNORABLE_WHITESPACE_FEATURE =
-    "http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include-ignorable-whitespace";
-  /** Feature URI for creating EntityReference nodes in the DOM tree. */
-  private static final String CREATE_ENTITY_REF_NODES_FEATURE =
-    "http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/create-entity-ref-nodes";
-  /** Property URI for providing external schema locations. */
-  private static final String EXTERNAL_SCHEMA_LOCATION_PROPERTY =
-    "http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-schemaLocation";
-  /** Property URI for providing the external schema location for elements 
-   * without a namespace. */
-  private static final String EXTERNAL_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION_PROPERTY =
-    "http://apache.org/xml/properties/schema/external-noNamespaceSchemaLocation";
-  /** Property URI for the Xerces grammar pool. */
-  private static final String GRAMMAR_POOL =
-    org.apache.xerces.impl.Constants.XERCES_PROPERTY_PREFIX
-      + org.apache.xerces.impl.Constants.XMLGRAMMAR_POOL_PROPERTY;
-  /** A prime number for initializing the symbol table. */
-  private static final int BIG_PRIME = 2039;
-  /** Symbol table for the grammar pool. */
-  private static SymbolTable symbolTable = new SymbolTable(BIG_PRIME);
-  /** Xerces schema grammar pool. */
-  private static XMLGrammarPool grammarPool = new XMLGrammarPoolImpl();
-  /** Set holding the NamespaceURIs of the grammarPool, to prevent multiple
-    * entries of same grammars to the pool */
-  private static Set grammarNamespaces; 
-
-  static {
-    grammarPool.lockPool();
-    grammarNamespaces = new HashSet();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Preparse a schema and add it to the schema pool.
-   * The method only adds the schema to the pool if a schema having the same
-   * <code>systemId</code> (namespace URI) is not already present in the pool.
-   * 
-   * @param inputStream An <code>InputStream</code> providing the contents of
-   * the schema.
-   * @param systemId The systemId (namespace URI) to use for the schema.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading the schema.
-   */
-  public static void addSchemaToPool(InputStream inputStream, String systemId)
-    throws IOException {
-    XMLGrammarPreparser preparser;
-
-    if (!grammarNamespaces.contains(systemId)) { 
-
-      grammarNamespaces.add(systemId);
-    
-      // unlock the pool so that we can add another grammar
-      grammarPool.unlockPool();
-	
-      // prepare the preparser
-      preparser = new XMLGrammarPreparser(symbolTable);
-      preparser.registerPreparser(XMLGrammarDescription.XML_SCHEMA, null);
-      preparser.setProperty(GRAMMAR_POOL, grammarPool);
-      preparser.setFeature(NAMESPACES_FEATURE, true);
-      preparser.setFeature(VALIDATION_FEATURE, true);
-	
-      // add the grammar to the pool
-      preparser.preparseGrammar(
-      XMLGrammarDescription.XML_SCHEMA,
-        new XMLInputSource(null, systemId, null, inputStream, null));
-	
-      // lock the pool again so that schemas are not added automatically
-      grammarPool.lockPool();
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Parse an XML document from an <code>InputStream</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param inputStream The <code>InputStream</code> containing the XML
-   * document.
-   * @param validating If <code>true</code>, parse validating.
-   * @param externalSchemaLocations A <code>String</code> containing namespace
-   * URI to schema location pairs, the same way it is accepted by the <code>xsi:
-   * schemaLocation</code> attribute. 
-   * @param externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation The schema location of the
-   * schema for elements without a namespace, the same way it is accepted by the
-   * <code>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</code> attribute.
-   * @param entityResolver An <code>EntityResolver</code> to resolve external
-   * entities (schemas and DTDs). If <code>null</code>, it will not be set.
-   * @param errorHandler An <code>ErrorHandler</code> to decide what to do
-   * with parsing errors. If <code>null</code>, it will not be set.
-   * @return The parsed XML document as a DOM tree.
-   * @throws SAXException An error occurred parsing the document.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading the document.
-   * @throws ParserConfigurationException An error occurred configuring the XML
-   * parser.
-   */
-  public static Document parseDocument(
-    InputStream inputStream,
-    boolean validating,
-    String externalSchemaLocations,
-    String externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation,
-    EntityResolver entityResolver,
-    ErrorHandler errorHandler)
-    throws  SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
-
-    DOMParser parser;
-
-
-
-		//if Debug is enabled make a copy of inputStream to enable debug output in case of SAXException
-		byte buffer [] = null;
-		ByteArrayInputStream baStream = null;
-		if(true == Logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
-			int len = inputStream.available();
-			buffer = new byte[len];
-			inputStream.read(buffer);
-			baStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer);
-		}	
-			
-    // create the DOM parser
-    if (symbolTable != null) {
-      parser = new DOMParser(symbolTable, grammarPool);
-    } else {
-      parser = new DOMParser();
-    }
-
-    // set parser features and properties
-    try {
-	    parser.setFeature(NAMESPACES_FEATURE, true);
-	    parser.setFeature(VALIDATION_FEATURE, validating);
-	    parser.setFeature(SCHEMA_VALIDATION_FEATURE, validating);
-	    parser.setFeature(NORMALIZED_VALUE_FEATURE, false);
-	    parser.setFeature(INCLUDE_IGNORABLE_WHITESPACE_FEATURE, true);
-	    parser.setFeature(CREATE_ENTITY_REF_NODES_FEATURE, false);
-	
-	    if (validating) {
-	      if (externalSchemaLocations != null) {
-	        parser.setProperty(
-	          EXTERNAL_SCHEMA_LOCATION_PROPERTY,
-	          externalSchemaLocations);
-	      }
-	      if (externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation != null) {
-	        parser.setProperty(
-	          EXTERNAL_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION_PROPERTY,
-	          externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation);
-	      }
-	    }
-	
-	    // set entity resolver and error handler
-	    if (entityResolver != null) {
-	      parser.setEntityResolver(entityResolver);
-	    }
-	    if (errorHandler != null) {
-	      parser.setErrorHandler(errorHandler);
-	    }
-	
-	    // parse the document and return it
-	    // if debug is enabled: use copy of strem (baStream) else use orig stream
-	    if(null != baStream)
-	    	parser.parse(new InputSource(baStream));
-	    else 
-				parser.parse(new InputSource(inputStream));
-    } catch(SAXException e) {
-			if(true == Logger.isDebugEnabled() && null != buffer) {
-				String xmlContent = new String(buffer);
-				Logger.debug("SAXException in:\n" + xmlContent);				 
-			} 
-		  throw(e);
-    }
-
-    return parser.getDocument();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Parse an XML document from an <code>InputStream</code>.
-   * 
-   * It uses a <code>MOAEntityResolver</code> as the <code>EntityResolver</code>
-   * and a <code>MOAErrorHandler</code> as the <code>ErrorHandler</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param inputStream The <code>InputStream</code> containing the XML
-   * document.
-   * @param validating If <code>true</code>, parse validating.
-   * @param externalSchemaLocations A <code>String</code> containing namespace
-   * URI to schema location pairs, the same way it is accepted by the <code>xsi:
-   * schemaLocation</code> attribute. 
-   * @param externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation The schema location of the
-   * schema for elements without a namespace, the same way it is accepted by the
-   * <code>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</code> attribute.
-   * @return The parsed XML document as a DOM tree.
-   * @throws SAXException An error occurred parsing the document.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading the document.
-   * @throws ParserConfigurationException An error occurred configuring the XML
-   * parser.
-   */
-  public static Document parseDocument(
-    InputStream inputStream,
-    boolean validating,
-    String externalSchemaLocations,
-    String externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation)
-    throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
-
-    return parseDocument(
-      inputStream,
-      validating,
-      externalSchemaLocations,
-      externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation,
-      new MOAEntityResolver(),
-      new MOAErrorHandler());
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Parse an XML document from a <code>String</code>.
-   * 
-   * It uses a <code>MOAEntityResolver</code> as the <code>EntityResolver</code>
-   * and a <code>MOAErrorHandler</code> as the <code>ErrorHandler</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param xmlString The <code>String</code> containing the XML document.
-   * @param encoding The encoding of the XML document.
-   * @param validating If <code>true</code>, parse validating.
-   * @param externalSchemaLocations A <code>String</code> containing namespace
-   * URI to schema location pairs, the same way it is accepted by the <code>xsi:
-   * schemaLocation</code> attribute. 
-   * @param externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation The schema location of the
-   * schema for elements without a namespace, the same way it is accepted by the
-   * <code>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</code> attribute.
-   * @return The parsed XML document as a DOM tree.
-   * @throws SAXException An error occurred parsing the document.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading the document.
-   * @throws ParserConfigurationException An error occurred configuring the XML
-   * parser.
-   */
-  public static Document parseDocument(
-    String xmlString,
-    String encoding,
-    boolean validating,
-    String externalSchemaLocations,
-    String externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation)
-    throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
-
-    InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes(encoding));
-    return parseDocument(
-      in,
-      validating,
-      externalSchemaLocations,
-      externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Parse an UTF-8 encoded XML document from a <code>String</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param xmlString The <code>String</code> containing the XML document.
-   * @param validating If <code>true</code>, parse validating.
-   * @param externalSchemaLocations A <code>String</code> containing namespace
-   * URI to schema location pairs, the same way it is accepted by the <code>xsi:
-   * schemaLocation</code> attribute. 
-   * @param externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation The schema location of the
-   * schema for elements without a namespace, the same way it is accepted by the
-   * <code>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</code> attribute.
-   * @return The parsed XML document as a DOM tree.
-   * @throws SAXException An error occurred parsing the document.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading the document.
-   * @throws ParserConfigurationException An error occurred configuring the XML
-   * parser.
-   */
-  public static Document parseDocument(
-    String xmlString,
-    boolean validating,
-    String externalSchemaLocations,
-    String externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation)
-    throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
-
-    return parseDocument(
-      xmlString,
-      "UTF-8",
-      validating,
-      externalSchemaLocations,
-      externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A convenience method to parse an XML document validating.
-   * 
-   * @param inputStream The <code>InputStream</code> containing the XML
-   * document.
-   * @return The root element of the parsed XML document.
-   * @throws SAXException An error occurred parsing the document.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading the document.
-   * @throws ParserConfigurationException An error occurred configuring the XML
-   * parser.
-   */
-  public static Element parseXmlValidating(InputStream inputStream)
-    throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException {
-    return DOMUtils
-      .parseDocument(inputStream, true, Constants.ALL_SCHEMA_LOCATIONS, null)
-      .getDocumentElement();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Schema validate a given DOM element.
-   * 
-   * @param element The element to validate.
-   * @param externalSchemaLocations A <code>String</code> containing namespace
-   * URI to schema location pairs, the same way it is accepted by the <code>xsi:
-   * schemaLocation</code> attribute. 
-   * @param externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation The schema location of the
-   * schema for elements without a namespace, the same way it is accepted by the
-   * <code>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation</code> attribute.
-   * @return <code>true</code>, if the <code>element</code> validates against
-   * the schemas declared in it.
-   * @throws SAXException An error occurred parsing the document.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading the document from its
-   * serialized representation.
-   * @throws ParserConfigurationException An error occurred configuring the XML
-   * @throws TransformerException An error occurred serializing the element.
-   */
-  public static boolean validateElement(
-    Element element,
-    String externalSchemaLocations,
-    String externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation)
-    throws
-      ParserConfigurationException,
-      IOException,
-      SAXException,
-      TransformerException {
-
-    byte[] docBytes;
-    SAXParser parser;
-
-    // create the SAX parser
-    if (symbolTable != null) {
-      parser = new SAXParser(symbolTable, grammarPool);
-    } else {
-      parser = new SAXParser();
-    }
-
-    // serialize the document
-    docBytes = serializeNode(element, "UTF-8");
-
-    // set up parser features and attributes
-    parser.setFeature(NAMESPACES_FEATURE, true);
-    parser.setFeature(VALIDATION_FEATURE, true);
-    parser.setFeature(SCHEMA_VALIDATION_FEATURE, true);
-    if (externalSchemaLocations != null) {
-      parser.setProperty(
-        EXTERNAL_SCHEMA_LOCATION_PROPERTY,
-        externalSchemaLocations);
-    }
-    if (externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation != null) {
-      parser.setProperty(
-        EXTERNAL_NO_NAMESPACE_SCHEMA_LOCATION_PROPERTY,
-        "externalNoNamespaceSchemaLocation");
-    }
-
-    // set up entity resolver and error handler
-    parser.setEntityResolver(new MOAEntityResolver());
-    parser.setErrorHandler(new MOAErrorHandler());
-
-    // parse validating
-    parser.parse(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(docBytes)));
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Serialize the given DOM node.
-   * 
-   * The node will be serialized using the UTF-8 encoding.
-   * 
-   * @param node The node to serialize.
-   * @return String The <code>String</code> representation of the given DOM
-   * node.
-   * @throws TransformerException An error occurred transforming the
-   * node to a <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws IOException An IO error occurred writing the node to a byte array.
-   */
-  public static String serializeNode(Node node)
-    throws TransformerException, IOException {
-    return new String(serializeNode(node, "UTF-8", false), "UTF-8");
-  }
-
-
-  /**
-   * Serialize the given DOM node.
-   * 
-   * The node will be serialized using the UTF-8 encoding.
-   * 
-   * @param node The node to serialize.
-   * @param omitXmlDeclaration The boolean value for omitting the XML Declaration.
-   * @return String The <code>String</code> representation of the given DOM
-   * node.
-   * @throws TransformerException An error occurred transforming the
-   * node to a <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws IOException An IO error occurred writing the node to a byte array.
-   */
-  public static String serializeNode(Node node, boolean omitXmlDeclaration)
-    throws TransformerException, IOException {
-    return new String(serializeNode(node, "UTF-8", omitXmlDeclaration), "UTF-8");
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Serialize the given DOM node.
-   * 
-   * The node will be serialized using the UTF-8 encoding.
-   * 
-   * @param node The node to serialize.
-   * @param omitXmlDeclaration The boolean value for omitting the XML Declaration.
-   * @param lineSeperator Sets the line seperator String of the parser
-   * @return String The <code>String</code> representation of the given DOM
-   * node.
-   * @throws TransformerException An error occurred transforming the
-   * node to a <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws IOException An IO error occurred writing the node to a byte array.
-   */
-  public static String serializeNode(Node node, boolean omitXmlDeclaration, String lineSeperator)
-    throws TransformerException, IOException {
-    return new String(serializeNode(node, "UTF-8", omitXmlDeclaration, lineSeperator), "UTF-8");
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Serialize the given DOM node to a byte array.
-   * 
-   * @param node The node to serialize.
-   * @param xmlEncoding The XML encoding to use.
-   * @return The serialized node, as a byte array. Using a compatible encoding
-   * this can easily be converted into a <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws TransformerException An error occurred transforming the node to a 
-   * byte array.
-   * @throws IOException An IO error occurred writing the node to a byte array.
-   */
-  public static byte[] serializeNode(Node node, String xmlEncoding)
-  throws TransformerException, IOException {
-    return serializeNode(node, xmlEncoding, false);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Serialize the given DOM node to a byte array.
-   * 
-   * @param node The node to serialize.
-   * @param xmlEncoding The XML encoding to use.
-   * @param omitDeclaration The boolean value for omitting the XML Declaration.
-   * @return The serialized node, as a byte array. Using a compatible encoding
-   * this can easily be converted into a <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws TransformerException An error occurred transforming the node to a 
-   * byte array.
-   * @throws IOException An IO error occurred writing the node to a byte array.
-   */
-  public static byte[] serializeNode(Node node, String xmlEncoding, boolean omitDeclaration)
-    throws TransformerException, IOException {
-    return serializeNode(node, xmlEncoding, omitDeclaration, null);
-  }
-
-
-  /**
-   * Serialize the given DOM node to a byte array.
-   * 
-   * @param node The node to serialize.
-   * @param xmlEncoding The XML encoding to use.
-   * @param omitDeclaration The boolean value for omitting the XML Declaration.
-   * @param lineSeperator Sets the line seperator String of the parser
-   * @return The serialized node, as a byte array. Using a compatible encoding
-   * this can easily be converted into a <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws TransformerException An error occurred transforming the node to a 
-   * byte array.
-   * @throws IOException An IO error occurred writing the node to a byte array.
-   */
-  public static byte[] serializeNode(Node node, String xmlEncoding, boolean omitDeclaration, String lineSeperator)
-    throws TransformerException, IOException {
-
-    TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
-    Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
-    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(16384);
-
-    transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
-    transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, xmlEncoding);
-    String omit = omitDeclaration ? "yes" : "no";
-    transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, omit);
-    if (null!=lineSeperator) {
-      transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}line-separator", lineSeperator);//does not work for xalan <= 2.5.1
-    }
-    transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(bos));
-
-    bos.flush();
-    bos.close();
-
-    return bos.toByteArray();
-  }
-
-  /**
-    * Return the text that a node contains. 
-    * 
-    * This routine:
-    * <ul>
-    * <li>Ignores comments and processing instructions.</li>
-    * <li>Concatenates TEXT nodes, CDATA nodes, and the results recursively
-    * processing EntityRef nodes.</li>
-    * <li>Ignores any element nodes in the sublist. (Other possible options are
-    * to recurse into element sublists or throw an exception.)</li>
-    * </ul>
-    * 
-    * @param node A DOM node from which to extract text.
-    * @return A String representing its contents.
-    */
-  public static String getText(Node node) {
-    if (!node.hasChildNodes()) {
-      return "";
-    }
-
-    StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
-    NodeList list = node.getChildNodes();
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) {
-      Node subnode = list.item(i);
-      if (subnode.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) {
-        result.append(subnode.getNodeValue());
-      } else if (subnode.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE) {
-        result.append(subnode.getNodeValue());
-      } else if (subnode.getNodeType() == Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE) {
-        // Recurse into the subtree for text
-        // (and ignore comments)
-        result.append(getText(subnode));
-      }
-    }
-    return result.toString();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Build the namespace prefix to namespace URL mapping in effect for a given
-   * node.
-   * 
-   * @param node The context node for which build the map.
-   * @return The namespace prefix to namespace URL mapping (
-   * a <code>String</code> value to <code>String</code> value mapping).
-   */
-  public static Map getNamespaceDeclarations(Node node) {
-    Map nsDecls = new HashMap();
-    int i;
-
-    do {
-      if (node.hasAttributes()) {
-        NamedNodeMap attrs = node.getAttributes();
-
-        for (i = 0; i < attrs.getLength(); i++) {
-          Attr attr = (Attr) attrs.item(i);
-
-          // add prefix mapping if none exists
-          if ("xmlns".equals(attr.getPrefix())
-            || "xmlns".equals(attr.getName())) {
-
-            String nsPrefix =
-              attr.getPrefix() != null ? attr.getLocalName() : "";
-
-            if (nsDecls.get(nsPrefix) == null) {
-              nsDecls.put(nsPrefix, attr.getValue());
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    } while ((node = node.getParentNode()) != null);
-
-    return nsDecls;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Add all namespace declarations declared in the parent(s) of a given
-   * element and used in the subtree of the given element to the given element.  
-   * 
-   * @param context The element to which to add the namespaces.
-   */
-  public static void localizeNamespaceDeclarations(Element context) {
-    Node parent = context.getParentNode();
-
-    if (parent != null) {
-      Map namespaces = getNamespaceDeclarations(context.getParentNode());
-      Set nsUris = collectNamespaceURIs(context);
-      Iterator iter;
-
-      for (iter = namespaces.entrySet().iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
-        Map.Entry e = (Map.Entry) iter.next();
-
-        if (nsUris.contains(e.getValue())) {
-          String prefix = (String) e.getKey();
-          String nsUri = (String) e.getValue();
-          String nsAttrName = "".equals(prefix) ? "xmlns" : "xmlns:" + prefix;
-
-          context.setAttributeNS(Constants.XMLNS_NS_URI, nsAttrName, nsUri);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Collect all the namespace URIs used in the subtree of a given element.
-   * 
-   * @param context The element that should be searched for namespace URIs.
-   * @return All namespace URIs used in the subtree of <code>context</code>,
-   * including the ones used in <code>context</code> itself.
-   */
-  public static Set collectNamespaceURIs(Element context) {
-    Set result = new HashSet();
-
-    collectNamespaceURIsImpl(context, result);
-    return result;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A recursive method to do the work of <code>collectNamespaceURIs</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param context The context element to evaluate.
-   * @param result The result, passed as a parameter to avoid unnecessary
-   * instantiations of <code>Set</code>.
-   */
-  private static void collectNamespaceURIsImpl(Element context, Set result) {
-    NamedNodeMap attrs = context.getAttributes();
-    NodeList childNodes = context.getChildNodes();
-    String nsUri;
-    int i;
-
-    // add the namespace of the context element
-    nsUri = context.getNamespaceURI();
-    if (nsUri != null && nsUri != Constants.XMLNS_NS_URI) {
-      result.add(nsUri);
-    }
-
-    // add all namespace URIs from attributes
-    for (i = 0; i < attrs.getLength(); i++) {
-      nsUri = attrs.item(i).getNamespaceURI();
-      if (nsUri != null && nsUri != Constants.XMLNS_NS_URI) {
-        result.add(nsUri);
-      }
-    }
-
-    // add all namespaces from subelements
-    for (i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
-      Node node = childNodes.item(i);
-
-      if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
-        collectNamespaceURIsImpl((Element) node, result);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Check, that each attribute node in the given <code>NodeList</code> has its
-   * parent in the <code>NodeList</code> as well.
-   * 
-   * @param nodes The <code>NodeList</code> to check.
-   * @return <code>true</code>, if each attribute node in <code>nodes</code>
-   * has its parent in <code>nodes</code> as well.
-   */
-  public static boolean checkAttributeParentsInNodeList(NodeList nodes) {
-    Set nodeSet = new HashSet();
-    int i;
-
-    // put the nodes into the nodeSet
-    for (i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
-      nodeSet.add(nodes.item(i));
-    }
-
-    // check that each attribute node's parent is in the node list
-    for (i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
-      Node n = nodes.item(i);
-
-      if (n.getNodeType() == Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE) {
-        Attr attr = (Attr) n;
-        Element owner = attr.getOwnerElement();
-
-        if (owner == null) {
-          if (!isNamespaceDeclaration(attr)) {
-            return false;
-          }
-        }
-
-        if (!nodeSet.contains(owner) && !isNamespaceDeclaration(attr)) {
-          return false;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Convert an unstructured <code>NodeList</code> into a 
-   * <code>DocumentFragment</code>.
-   *
-   * @param nodeList Contains the node list to be converted into a DOM 
-   * DocumentFragment.
-   * @return the resulting DocumentFragment. The DocumentFragment will be 
-   * backed by a new DOM Document, i.e. all noded of the node list will be 
-   * cloned.
-   * @throws ParserConfigurationException An error occurred creating the
-   * DocumentFragment.
-   * @precondition The nodes in the node list appear in document order
-   * @precondition for each Attr node in the node list, the owning Element is 
-   * in the node list as well.
-   * @precondition each Element or Attr node in the node list is namespace 
-   * aware.
-   */
-  public static DocumentFragment nodeList2DocumentFragment(NodeList nodeList)
-    throws ParserConfigurationException {
-
-    DocumentBuilder builder =
-      DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
-    Document doc = builder.newDocument();
-    DocumentFragment result = doc.createDocumentFragment();
-
-    if (null == nodeList || nodeList.getLength() == 0) {
-      return result;
-    }
-
-    int currPos = 0;
-    currPos =
-      nodeList2DocumentFragment(nodeList, currPos, result, null, null) + 1;
-
-    while (currPos < nodeList.getLength()) {
-      currPos =
-        nodeList2DocumentFragment(nodeList, currPos, result, null, null) + 1;
-    }
-    return result;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Helper method for the <code>nodeList2DocumentFragment</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param nodeList The <code>NodeList</code> to convert.
-   * @param currPos The current position in the <code>nodeList</code>.
-   * @param result The resulting <code>DocumentFragment</code>.
-   * @param currOrgElem The current original element.
-   * @param currClonedElem The current cloned element.
-   * @return The current position.
-   */
-  private static int nodeList2DocumentFragment(
-    NodeList nodeList,
-    int currPos,
-    DocumentFragment result,
-    Element currOrgElem,
-    Element currClonedElem) {
-
-    while (currPos < nodeList.getLength()) {
-      Node currentNode = nodeList.item(currPos);
-      switch (currentNode.getNodeType()) {
-        case Node.COMMENT_NODE :
-        case Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE :
-        case Node.TEXT_NODE :
-          {
-            // Append current node either to resulting DocumentFragment or to 
-            // current cloned Element
-            if (null == currClonedElem) {
-              result.appendChild(
-                result.getOwnerDocument().importNode(currentNode, false));
-            } else {
-              // Stop processing if current Node is not a descendant of 
-              // current Element
-              if (!isAncestor(currOrgElem, currentNode)) {
-                return --currPos;
-              }
-
-              currClonedElem.appendChild(
-                result.getOwnerDocument().importNode(currentNode, false));
-            }
-            break;
-          }
-
-        case Node.ELEMENT_NODE :
-          {
-            Element nextCurrOrgElem = (Element) currentNode;
-            Element nextCurrClonedElem =
-              result.getOwnerDocument().createElementNS(
-                nextCurrOrgElem.getNamespaceURI(),
-                nextCurrOrgElem.getNodeName());
-
-            // Append current Node either to resulting DocumentFragment or to 
-            // current cloned Element
-            if (null == currClonedElem) {
-              result.appendChild(nextCurrClonedElem);
-              currOrgElem = nextCurrOrgElem;
-              currClonedElem = nextCurrClonedElem;
-            } else {
-              // Stop processing if current Node is not a descendant of
-              // current Element
-              if (!isAncestor(currOrgElem, currentNode)) {
-                return --currPos;
-              }
-
-              currClonedElem.appendChild(nextCurrClonedElem);
-            }
-
-            // Process current Node (of type Element) recursively
-            currPos =
-              nodeList2DocumentFragment(
-                nodeList,
-                ++currPos,
-                result,
-                nextCurrOrgElem,
-                nextCurrClonedElem);
-
-            break;
-          }
-
-        case Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE :
-          {
-            Attr currAttr = (Attr) currentNode;
-
-            // GK 20030411: Hack to overcome problems with IAIK IXSIL
-            if (currAttr.getOwnerElement() == null)
-              break;
-            if (currClonedElem == null)
-              break;
-
-            // currClonedElem must be the owner Element of currAttr if 
-            // preconditions are met
-            currClonedElem.setAttributeNS(
-              currAttr.getNamespaceURI(),
-              currAttr.getNodeName(),
-              currAttr.getValue());
-            break;
-          }
-
-        default :
-          {
-            // All other nodes will be ignored
-          }
-      }
-
-      currPos++;
-    }
-
-    return currPos;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Check, if the given attribute is a namespace declaration.
-   * 
-   * @param attr The attribute to check.
-   * @return <code>true</code>, if the attribute is a namespace declaration,
-   * <code>false</code> otherwise.
-   */
-  private static boolean isNamespaceDeclaration(Attr attr) {
-    return Constants.XMLNS_NS_URI.equals(attr.getNamespaceURI());
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Check, if a given DOM element is an ancestor of a given node.
-   * 
-   * @param candAnc The DOM element to check for being the ancestor.
-   * @param cand The node to check for being the child.
-   * @return <code>true</code>, if <code>candAnc</code> is an (indirect) 
-   * ancestor of <code>cand</code>; <code>false</code> otherwise.
-   */
-  public static boolean isAncestor(Element candAnc, Node cand) {
-    Node currPar = cand.getParentNode();
-
-    while (currPar != null) {
-      if (candAnc == currPar)
-        return true;
-      currPar = currPar.getParentNode();
-    }
-    return false;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Selects the (first) element from a node list and returns it.
-   * 
-   * @param nl  The NodeList to get the element from.
-   * @return    The (first) element included in the node list or <code>null</code>
-   *            if the node list is <code>null</code> or empty or no element is
-   *            included in the list.
-   */
-  public static Element getElementFromNodeList (NodeList nl) {
-    if ((nl == null) || (nl.getLength() == 0)) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    for (int i=0; i<nl.getLength(); i++) {
-      Node node = nl.item(i);
-      if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE)  {
-        return  (Element)node;
-      }
-    }
-    return null;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Returns all child elements of the given element.
-   * 
-   * @param parent  The element to get the child elements from.
-   * 
-   * @return A list including all child elements of the given element.
-   *         Maybe empty if the parent element has no child elements.
-   */
-  public static List getChildElements (Element parent) {
-    Vector v = new Vector();
-    NodeList nl = parent.getChildNodes();
-    int length = nl.getLength();
-    for (int i=0; i < length; i++) {
-      Node node = nl.item(i);
-      if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
-        v.add((Element)node);
-      }
-    }
-    return v;
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/DateTimeUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/DateTimeUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 58cc04c4c..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/DateTimeUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,326 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-import java.text.ParseException;
-import java.util.Calendar;
-import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
-import java.util.TimeZone;
-
-/**
- * Utility for parsing and building XML type <code>dateTime</code>,
- * according to ISO 8601.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- * @see <code>http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes"</code>
- */
-public class DateTimeUtils {
-  /** Error messages. */
-  private static MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-
-  /**
-   * Builds a <code>dateTime</code> value from a <code>Calendar</code> value.
-   * @param cal the <code>Calendar</code> value
-   * @return the <code>dateTime</code> value
-   */
-  public static String buildDateTime(Calendar cal) {
-    StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
-    out.write("" + cal.get(Calendar.YEAR));
-    out.write("-");
-    out.write(to2DigitString(cal.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1));
-    out.write("-");
-    out.write(to2DigitString(cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH)));
-    out.write("T");
-    out.write(to2DigitString(cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)));
-    out.write(":");
-    out.write(to2DigitString(cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE)));
-    out.write(":");
-    out.write(to2DigitString(cal.get(Calendar.SECOND)));
-    int tzOffsetMilliseconds =
-      cal.get(Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET) + cal.get(Calendar.DST_OFFSET);
-    if (tzOffsetMilliseconds != 0) {
-      int tzOffsetMinutes = tzOffsetMilliseconds / (1000 * 60);
-      int tzOffsetHours = tzOffsetMinutes / 60;
-      tzOffsetMinutes -= tzOffsetHours * 60;
-      if (tzOffsetMilliseconds > 0) {
-        out.write("+");
-        out.write(to2DigitString(tzOffsetHours));
-        out.write(":");
-        out.write(to2DigitString(tzOffsetMinutes));
-      } else {
-        out.write("-");
-        out.write(to2DigitString(-tzOffsetHours));
-        out.write(":");
-        out.write(to2DigitString(-tzOffsetMinutes));
-      }
-    }
-    return out.toString();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Converts month, day, hour, minute, or second value
-   * to a 2 digit String.
-   * @param number the month, day, hour, minute, or second value
-   * @return 2 digit String
-   */
-  private static String to2DigitString(int number) {
-    if (number < 10)
-      return "0" + number;
-    else
-      return "" + number;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Parse a <code>String</code> containing a date and time instant, given in
-   * ISO 8601 format.
-   * 
-   * @param dateTime The <code>String</code> to parse.
-   * @return The <code>Date</code> representation of the contents of
-   * <code>dateTime</code>.
-   * @throws ParseException Parsing the <code>dateTime</code> failed.
-   */
-  public static Date parseDateTime(String dateTime) throws ParseException {
-    GregorianCalendar calendar;
-    long time;
-    int yearSign = 1, year, month, day;
-    int hour, minute, second;
-    double fraction = 0.0;
-    int tzSign = 1, tzHour = 0, tzMinute = 0;
-    int curPos = 0;
-    String fractStr;
-    boolean localTime = false;
-    char c;
-
-    // parse year sign
-    ensureChars(dateTime, curPos, 1);
-    c = dateTime.charAt(curPos);
-    if (c == '+' || c == '-') {
-      yearSign = c == '+' ? 1 : -1;
-      curPos++;
-    }
-
-    // parse year
-    year = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 4);
-    curPos += 4;
-
-    // parse '-'
-    ensureChar(dateTime, curPos, '-');
-    curPos++;
-
-    // parse month
-    month = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 2);
-    ensureValue(month, 1, 12, curPos);
-    curPos += 2;
-
-    // parse '-'
-    ensureChar(dateTime, curPos, '-');
-    curPos++;
-
-    // parse day
-    day = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 2);
-    ensureValue(day, 1, 31, curPos);
-    curPos += 2;
-
-    // parse 'T'
-    ensureChar(dateTime, curPos, 'T');
-    curPos++;
-
-    // parse hour
-    hour = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 2);
-    ensureValue(hour, 0, 23, curPos);
-    curPos += 2;
-
-    // parse ':'
-    ensureChar(dateTime, curPos, ':');
-    curPos++;
-
-    // parse minute
-    minute = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 2);
-    ensureValue(minute, 0, 59, curPos);
-    curPos += 2;
-
-    // parse ':'
-    ensureChar(dateTime, curPos, ':');
-    curPos++;
-
-    // parse second
-    second = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 2);
-    ensureValue(second, 0, 59, curPos);
-    curPos += 2;
-
-    // parse a fraction
-    if (dateTime.length() > curPos && dateTime.charAt(curPos) == '.') {
-      curPos++;
-      ensureDigits(dateTime, curPos, 1);
-      fractStr = "0.";
-      fractStr
-        += dateTime.substring(curPos, curPos + countDigits(dateTime, curPos));
-      fraction = Double.parseDouble(fractStr);
-      curPos += countDigits(dateTime, curPos);
-    }
-
-    // parse a time zone
-    if (dateTime.length() > curPos) {
-      c = dateTime.charAt(curPos);
-      if (c == 'Z') {
-        curPos++;
-      } else if (c == '+' || c == '-') {
-        // parse time zone sign
-        tzSign = c == '+' ? 1 : -1;
-        curPos++;
-
-        // parse time zone hour
-        tzHour = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 2);
-        ensureValue(tzHour, 0, 14, curPos);
-        curPos += 2;
-
-        // parse ':'
-        ensureChar(dateTime, curPos, ':');
-        curPos++;
-
-        // parse time zone minute
-        tzMinute = parseInt(dateTime, curPos, 2);
-        ensureValue(tzMinute, 0, 59, curPos);
-        curPos += 2;
-      }
-    } else {
-      localTime = true;
-    }
-
-    // if we have characters left, it's an error
-    if (dateTime.length() != curPos) {
-      throw new ParseException(msg.getMessage("datetime.00", null), curPos);
-    }
-
-    // build the Date object
-    year = year * yearSign;
-    try {
-      calendar = new GregorianCalendar(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
-      calendar.set(year, month - 1, day, hour, minute, second);
-      calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);
-      time = calendar.getTime().getTime();
-      time += (long) (fraction * 1000.0);
-      time -= tzSign * ((tzHour * 60) + tzMinute) * 60 * 1000;
-      if (localTime) {
-        time -= TimeZone.getDefault().getRawOffset();        
-      }
-      return new Date(time);
-    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
-      throw new ParseException(msg.getMessage("datetime.00", null), curPos);
-    }
-
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Parse an integer value.
-   * 
-   * @param str The <code>String</code> containing the digits.
-   * @param curPos The starting position.
-   * @param digits The number of digist making up the integer value.
-   * @return int The integer representation of the digits contained in
-   * <code>str</code>.
-   * @throws ParseException Parsing the integer value failed.
-   */
-  private static int parseInt(String str, int curPos, int digits)
-    throws ParseException {
-
-    ensureDigits(str, curPos, digits);
-    return Integer.parseInt(str.substring(curPos, curPos + digits));
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Count the number of digits following <code>curPos</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param str The <code>String</code> in which to count digits.
-   * @param curPos The starting position.
-   * @return int The number of digits.
-   */
-  private static int countDigits(String str, int curPos) {
-    int i;
-
-    for (i = curPos; i < str.length() && Character.isDigit(str.charAt(i)); i++);
-    return i - curPos;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Ensure that a value falls in a given min/max range.
-   * 
-   * @param value The value to check.
-   * @param min The minimum allowed value.
-   * @param max The maximum allowed value.
-   * @param curPos To indicate the parsing position in the
-   * <code>ParseException</code>.
-   * @throws ParseException Thrown, if <code>value &lt; min || value &gt;
-   * max</code>
-   */
-  private static void ensureValue(int value, int min, int max, int curPos)
-    throws ParseException {
-
-    if (value < min || value > max) {
-      throw new ParseException(msg.getMessage("datetime.00", null), curPos);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Ensure that the given <code>String</code> has a number of characters left.
-   * 
-   * @param str The <code>String</code> to check for its length.
-   * @param curPos The starting position.
-   * @param count The minimum number of characters that <code>str</code> must
-   * contain, starting at from <code>curPos</code>.
-   * @throws ParseException Thrown, if 
-   * <code>curPos + count &gt; str.length()</code>.
-   */
-  private static void ensureChars(String str, int curPos, int count)
-    throws ParseException {
-    if (curPos + count > str.length()) {
-      throw new ParseException(msg.getMessage("datetime.00", null), curPos);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Ensure that a given <code>String</code> contains a certain character at a
-   * certain position.
-   * 
-   * @param str The <code>String</code> in which to look up the character. 
-   * @param curPos The position in <code>str</code> that must contain the
-   * character.
-   * @param c The character value that must be contained at position
-   * <code>curPos</code>.
-   * @throws ParseException Thrown, if the characters do not match or
-   * <code>curPos</code> is out of range.
-   */
-  private static void ensureChar(String str, int curPos, char c)
-    throws ParseException {
-
-    ensureChars(str, curPos, 1);
-    if (str.charAt(curPos) != c) {
-      throw new ParseException(msg.getMessage("datetime.00", null), curPos);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Ensure that a given <code>String</code> contains a number of digits,
-   * starting at a given position.
-   * 
-   * @param str The <code>String</code> to scan for digits. 
-   * @param curPos The starting postion.
-   * @param count The number of digits that must be contained in
-   * <code>str</code>, starting at <code>curPos</code>.
-   * @throws ParseException Thrown, if <code>str</code> is not long enough, or
-   * one of the characters following <code>curPos</code> in <code>str</code> is
-   * not a digit.
-   */
-  private static void ensureDigits(String str, int curPos, int count)
-    throws ParseException {
-
-    ensureChars(str, curPos, count);
-    for (int i = curPos; i < curPos + count; i++) {
-      if (!Character.isDigit(str.charAt(i))) {
-        throw new ParseException(msg.getMessage("datetime.00", null), curPos);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/EntityResolverChain.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/EntityResolverChain.java
deleted file mode 100644
index e7008a701..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/EntityResolverChain.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-
-/**
- * Implementation of the <code>org.xml.sax.EntityResolver</code>,
- * for use by a <code>org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser</code>.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class EntityResolverChain implements EntityResolver {
-  /** The <code>EntityResolver</code>s in the chain. */
-  private List resolvers = new ArrayList();
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.xml.sax.EntityResolver#resolveEntity(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
-   */
-  public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)
-    throws SAXException, IOException {
-    
-    Iterator iter;
-    
-    for (iter = resolvers.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
-      EntityResolver resolver = (EntityResolver) iter.next();
-      InputSource is = resolver.resolveEntity(publicId, systemId);
-      
-      if (is != null) {
-        return is;
-      }
-    }
-    
-    return null;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Add an <code>EntityResolver</code> to the chain.
-   * 
-   * @param entityResolver The <code>EntityResolver</code> to add.
-   */
-  public void addEntityResolver(EntityResolver entityResolver) {
-    resolvers.add(entityResolver);
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/FileUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/FileUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a5e777c2d..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/FileUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.net.URL;
-
-/**
- * Utility for accessing files on the file system, and for reading from input streams.
- * @author Paul Ivancsics
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class FileUtils {
-  
-  /**
-   * Reads a file, given by URL, into a byte array.
-   * @param urlString file URL
-   * @return file content
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static byte[] readURL(String urlString) throws IOException {
-    URL url = new URL(urlString);
-    InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
-    byte[] content = StreamUtils.readStream(in);
-    in.close();
-    return content;
-  }
-  /**
-   * Reads a file, given by URL, into a String.
-   * @param urlString file URL
-   * @param encoding character encoding
-   * @return file content
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static String readURL(String urlString, String encoding) throws IOException {
-    byte[] content = readURL(urlString);
-    return new String(content, encoding);
-  }
-  /**
-   * Reads a file, given by filename, into a byte array.
-   * @param filename filename
-   * @return file content
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static byte[] readFile(String filename) throws IOException {
-    BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(filename));
-    byte[] content = StreamUtils.readStream(in);
-    in.close();
-    return content;
-  }
-  /**
-   * Reads a file, given by filename, into a String.
-   * @param filename filename
-   * @param encoding character encoding
-   * @return file content
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static String readFile(String filename, String encoding) throws IOException {
-    byte[] content = readFile(filename);
-    return new String(content, encoding);
-  }
-  /**
-   * Reads a file from a resource.
-   * @param name resource name
-   * @return file content as a byte array
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static byte[] readResource(String name) throws IOException {
-    ClassLoader cl = FileUtils.class.getClassLoader();
-    BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(cl.getResourceAsStream(name));
-    byte[] content = StreamUtils.readStream(in);
-    in.close();
-    return content;
-  }
-  /**
-   * Reads a file from a resource.
-   * @param name filename
-   * @param encoding character encoding
-   * @return file content
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static String readResource(String name, String encoding) throws IOException {
-    byte[] content = readResource(name);
-    return new String(content, encoding);
-  }
-  
-	/**
-	 * Returns the absolute URL of a given url which is relative to the parameter root
-	 * @param url
-	 * @param root
-	 * @return String
-	 */
-	public static String makeAbsoluteURL(String url, String root) {
-		//if url is relative to rootConfigFileDirName make it absolute 					
-		
-    File keyFile;
-    String newURL = url;
-
-		if(null == url) return  null;
-    
-    if (url.startsWith("http:/") || url.startsWith("https:/") || url.startsWith("file:/") || url.startsWith("ftp:/")) {
-    	return url;
-    } else {
-      // check if absolute - if not make it absolute
-      keyFile = new File(url);
-      if (!keyFile.isAbsolute()) {
-        keyFile = new File(root, url);
-        newURL = keyFile.getPath();
-      }
-      return newURL;
-    }
-	}  
-  
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/KeyStoreUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/KeyStoreUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d6a34a7b2..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/KeyStoreUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import iaik.x509.X509Certificate;
-
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
-import java.security.KeyStore;
-import java.security.cert.Certificate;
-
-/**
- * Utility for creating and loading key stores.
- * 
- * @author Paul Ivancsics
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class KeyStoreUtils {
-
-  /**
-   * Loads a key store from file.
-   * 
-   * @param keystoreType key store type
-   * @param urlString URL of key store
-   * @param password password protecting the key store
-   * @return key store loaded
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading the key store from file
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the key store
-   */
-  public static KeyStore loadKeyStore(
-    String keystoreType,
-    String urlString,
-    String password)
-    throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-
-    URL keystoreURL = new URL(urlString);
-    InputStream in = keystoreURL.openStream();
-    return loadKeyStore(keystoreType, in, password);
-  }
-  /**
-   * Loads a key store from an <code>InputStream</code>, and
-   * closes the <code>InputStream</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param keystoreType key store type
-   * @param in input stream
-   * @param password password protecting the key store
-   * @return key store loaded
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading the key store from the stream
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the key store
-   */
-  public static KeyStore loadKeyStore(
-    String keystoreType,
-    InputStream in,
-    String password)
-    throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-
-    char[] chPassword = null;
-    if (password != null)
-      chPassword = password.toCharArray();
-    KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance(keystoreType);
-    ks.load(in, chPassword);
-    in.close();
-    return ks;
-  }
-  /**
-   * Creates a key store from X509 certificate files, aliasing them with
-   * the index in the <code>String[]</code>, starting with <code>"0"</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param keyStoreType key store type
-   * @param certFilenames certificate filenames
-   * @return key store created
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading the certificates from file
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the key store
-   */
-  public static KeyStore createKeyStore(
-    String keyStoreType,
-    String[] certFilenames)
-    throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-
-    KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance(keyStoreType);
-    ks.load(null, null);
-    for (int i = 0; i < certFilenames.length; i++) {
-      Certificate cert = loadCertificate(certFilenames[i]);
-      ks.setCertificateEntry("" + i, cert);
-    }
-    return ks;
-  }
-  /**
-   * Creates a key store from a directory containg X509 certificate files, 
-   * aliasing them with the index in the <code>String[]</code>, starting with <code>"0"</code>.
-   * All the files in the directory are considered to be certificates.
-   * 
-   * @param keyStoreType key store type
-   * @param certDirURLString file URL of directory containing certificate filenames
-   * @return key store created
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading the certificates from file
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the key store
-   */
-  public static KeyStore createKeyStoreFromCertificateDirectory(
-    String keyStoreType,
-    String certDirURLString)
-    throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-
-    URL certDirURL = new URL(certDirURLString);
-    String certDirname = certDirURL.getFile();
-    File certDir = new File(certDirname);
-    String[] certFilenames = certDir.list();
-    String separator =
-      (certDirname.endsWith(File.separator) ? "" : File.separator);
-    for (int i = 0; i < certFilenames.length; i++) {
-      certFilenames[i] = certDirname + separator + certFilenames[i];
-    }
-    return createKeyStore(keyStoreType, certFilenames);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Loads an X509 certificate from file.
-   * @param certFilename filename
-   * @return the certificate loaded
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading the certificate from file
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the certificate
-   */
-  private static Certificate loadCertificate(String certFilename)
-    throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-
-    FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(certFilename);
-    Certificate cert = new X509Certificate(in);
-    in.close();
-    return cert;
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOADefaultHandler.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOADefaultHandler.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 0474d92cd..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOADefaultHandler.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
-import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
-import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
-
-/**
- * A <code>DefaultHandler</code> that uses a <code>MOAEntityResolver</code> and
- * a <code>MOAErrorHandler</code>.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class MOADefaultHandler extends DefaultHandler {
-  /** The <code>EntityResolver</code> to use. */
-  private EntityResolver entityResolver;
-  /** The <code>ErrorHandler</code> to use. */
-  private ErrorHandler errorHandler;
-
-  /**
-   * Create a new <code>MOADefaultHandler</code>.
-   */
-  public MOADefaultHandler() {
-    entityResolver = new MOAEntityResolver();
-    errorHandler = new MOAErrorHandler();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Create a new <code>MOADefaultHandler</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param entityResolver The <code>EntityResolver</code> to use for resolving
-   * external entities.
-   * @param errorHandler The <code>ErrorHandler</code> to use for reporting
-   * parsing errors.
-   */
-  public MOADefaultHandler(
-    EntityResolver entityResolver,
-    ErrorHandler errorHandler) {
-
-    this.entityResolver = entityResolver;
-    this.errorHandler = errorHandler;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.xml.sax.EntityResolver#resolveEntity(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
-   */
-  public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId)
-    throws SAXException {
-    try {
-      return entityResolver.resolveEntity(publicId, systemId);
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      return null;
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#warning(org.xml.sax.SAXParseException)
-   */
-  public void warning(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
-    errorHandler.warning(exception);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#error(org.xml.sax.SAXParseException)
-   */
-  public void error(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
-    errorHandler.error(exception);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#fatalError(org.xml.sax.SAXParseException)
-   */
-  public void fatalError(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
-    errorHandler.fatalError(exception);
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOAEntityResolver.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOAEntityResolver.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 9406612e2..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOAEntityResolver.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.InputStream;
-
-import org.apache.xerces.util.URI;
-import org.apache.xerces.util.URI.MalformedURIException;
-import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-
-import at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging.LogMsg;
-import at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging.Logger;
-
-/**
- * An <code>EntityResolver</code> that looks up entities stored as
- * local resources.
- * 
- * <p>The following DTDs are mapped to local resources: 
- * <ul>
- * <li>The XMLSchema.dtd</li>
- * <li>The datatypes.dtd</li>
- * </ul>
- * </p>
- * <p>For all other resources, an attempt is made to resolve them as resources,
- * either absolute or relative to <code>Constants.SCHEMA_ROOT</code>.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @author Sven Aigner
- */
-public class MOAEntityResolver implements EntityResolver {
-
-  /**
-   * Resolve an entity.
-   * 
-   * The <code>systemId</code> parameter is used to perform the lookup of the
-   * entity as a resource, either by interpreting the <code>systemId</code> as
-   * an absolute resource path, or by appending the last path component of
-   * <code>systemId</code> to <code>Constants.SCHEMA_ROOT</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param publicId The public ID of the resource.
-   * @param systemId The system ID of the resource.
-   * @return An <code>InputSource</code> from which the entity can be read, or
-   * <code>null</code>, if the entity could not be found.
-   * @see org.xml.sax.EntityResolver#resolveEntity(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
-   */
-  public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) {
-    InputStream stream;
-    int slashPos;
-
-    if (Logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
-      Logger.debug(
-        new LogMsg("resolveEntity: p=" + publicId + " s=" + systemId));
-    }
-
-    if (publicId != null) {
-      // check if we can resolve some standard dtd's
-      if (publicId.equalsIgnoreCase("-//W3C//DTD XMLSchema 200102//EN")) {
-        return new InputSource(
-          getClass().getResourceAsStream(
-            Constants.SCHEMA_ROOT + "XMLSchema.dtd"));
-      } else if (publicId.equalsIgnoreCase("datatypes")) {
-        return new InputSource(
-          getClass().getResourceAsStream(
-            Constants.SCHEMA_ROOT + "datatypes.dtd"));
-      }
-    } else if (systemId != null) {
-      // get the URI path
-      try {
-        URI uri = new URI(systemId);
-        systemId = uri.getPath();
-        if (!"file".equals(uri.getScheme()) || "".equals(systemId.trim())) {
-          return null;
-        }
-      } catch (MalformedURIException e) {
-        return null;
-      }
-      
-      // try to get the resource from the full path
-      stream = getClass().getResourceAsStream(systemId);
-      if (stream != null) {
-        InputSource source = new InputSource(stream);
-
-        source.setSystemId(systemId);
-        return source;
-      }
-
-      // try to get the resource from the last path component
-      slashPos = systemId.lastIndexOf('/');
-      if (slashPos >= 0 && systemId.length() > slashPos) {
-        systemId = systemId.substring(slashPos + 1, systemId.length());
-        stream =
-          getClass().getResourceAsStream(Constants.SCHEMA_ROOT + systemId);
-        if (stream != null) {
-          InputSource source = new InputSource(stream);
-
-          source.setSystemId(systemId);
-          return source;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    return null; // nothing found - let the parser handle the entity
-  }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOAErrorHandler.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOAErrorHandler.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f7757c8f..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOAErrorHandler.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import org.apache.xml.utils.DefaultErrorHandler;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
-
-import at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging.LogMsg;
-import at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging.Logger;
-
-/**
- * An <code>ErrorHandler</code> that logs a message and throws a
- * <code>SAXException</code> upon <code>error</code> and <code>fatal</code>
- * parsing errors.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @author Sven Aigner
- */
-public class MOAErrorHandler extends DefaultErrorHandler {
-
-  /**
-   * Logs a warning message.
-   * 
-   * @see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#warning(SAXParseException)
-   */
-  public void warning(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
-    warn("parser.00", messageParams(exception), null);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Logs a warning and rethrows the <code>exception</code>.
-   * 
-   * @see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#error(SAXParseException)
-   */
-  public void error(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
-    warn("parser.01", messageParams(exception), null);
-    throw exception;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Logs a warning and rethrows the <code>exception</code>.
-   * 
-   * @see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#fatalError(SAXParseException)
-   */
-  public void fatalError(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
-    warn("parser.02", messageParams(exception), null);
-    throw exception;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Log a warning message.
-   * 
-   * @param messageId The message ID to log.
-   * @param parameters Additional message parameters.
-   * @param t The <code>Throwable</code> to log; usually the cause of this
-   * warning.
-   */
-  private static void warn(
-    String messageId,
-    Object[] parameters,
-    Throwable t) {
-
-    MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-    Logger.warn(new LogMsg(msg.getMessage(messageId, parameters)), t);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Put the system id, line and column number information from the exception
-   * into an <code>Object</code> array, to provide it as a
-   * <code>MessageFormat</code> parameter.
-   * 
-   * @param e The <code>SAXParseException</code> containing the
-   * source system id and line/column numbers.
-   * @return An array containing the system id (a <code>String</code>) as well
-   * as line/column numbers (2 <code>Integer</code> objects) from the
-   * <code>SAXParseException</code>.
-   */
-  private static Object[] messageParams(SAXParseException e) {
-    return new Object[] {
-      e.getMessage(),
-      e.getSystemId(),
-      new Integer(e.getLineNumber()),
-      new Integer(e.getColumnNumber())};
-  }
-
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOATimer.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOATimer.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d8bf64fc3..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MOATimer.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.WeakHashMap;
-
-/**
- * A timer utility for named timers.
- * 
- * @author Sven Aigner
- */
-public class MOATimer {
-
-  /** The single instance of this class. */
-  private static MOATimer instance = null;
-  /** The starting points of single timings. */
-  private static Map timemapstart = new WeakHashMap();
-  /** The end points of single timings. */
-  private static Map timemapend = new WeakHashMap();
-
-  /**
-   * Return the single instance of this class.
-   * 
-   * @return The single instance of this class.
-   */
-  public static MOATimer getInstance() {
-    if (instance == null) {
-      instance = new MOATimer();
-    }
-    return instance;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Create a new <code>MOATimer</code>.
-   * 
-   * Protected to disallow multiple instances.
-   */
-  protected MOATimer() {
-    super();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Start timing a certain action.
-   * 
-   * The timing belonging to the action ID is garbage collected as soon as there
-   * exists no other reference to the action ID.
-   * 
-   * @param id The action ID.
-   */
-  public void startTiming(Object id) {
-    timemapstart.put(id, new Long(System.currentTimeMillis()));
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Stop timing an action.
-   * 
-   * @param id The action ID.
-   */
-  public void stopTiming(Object id) {
-    timemapend.put(id, new Long(System.currentTimeMillis()));
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Get the duration of an action.
-   * 
-   * @param id The action ID for which to compute the duration.
-   * @return long The duration in milliseconds between calls to
-   * <code>startTiming()</code> and <code>stopTiming()</code>. If
-   * only <code>startTiming()</code> has been called for the action, then
-   * current difference to the system time is returned. If no timing exists for
-   * the action, <code>- 1</code> is returned.
-   */
-  public long duration(Object id) {
-    if (timemapstart.containsKey(id)) {
-      long start = ((Long) timemapstart.get(id)).longValue();
-      if (timemapend.containsKey(id)) {
-        long end = ((Long) timemapend.get(id)).longValue();
-        return end - start;
-      } else {
-        return System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
-      }
-    } else
-      return -1;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Get the duration of an action, as a nicely formatted <code>String</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param id The action ID.
-   * @return String The <code>duration()</code> as a <code>String</code>.
-   */
-  public String durationAsString(Object id) {
-    long dur = duration(id);
-    long second = dur / 1000;
-    long mil = (dur) - (second * 1000);
-    return "Duration: " + second + "." + mil + " seconds";
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Remove a timing.
-   * 
-   * @param id The action ID.
-   */
-  public void clearTiming(String id) {
-    if (timemapstart.containsKey(id))
-      timemapstart.remove(id);
-    if (timemapend.containsKey(id))
-      timemapend.remove(id);
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MessageProvider.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MessageProvider.java
deleted file mode 100644
index f5117e390..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/MessageProvider.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.Locale;
-
-/**
- * A singleton wrapper around a <code>Message</code> object.
- * 
- * Provides the messages used in the common project.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class MessageProvider {
-  /** The location of the default message resources. */
-  private static final String[] DEFAULT_MESSAGE_RESOURCES =
-    { "resources/properties/common_messages" };
-  /** The locale of the default message resources. */
-  private static final Locale[] DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOCALES =
-    new Locale[] { new Locale("de", "AT") };
-  /** The single instance of this class. */
-  private static MessageProvider instance;
-  
-  /** The messages provided by this <code>MessageProvider</code>. */
-  private Messages messages;
-  
-  /**
-   * Return the single instance of the <code>MessageProvider</code>.
-   * 
-   * Intialilizes the <code>MessageProvider</code> with the default message
-   * locations: <code>/resources/properties/common_messages</code>.
-   * 
-   * @return The single <code>MessageProvider</code>.
-   */
-  public static synchronized MessageProvider getInstance() {
-    if (instance == null) {
-      instance =
-        new MessageProvider(DEFAULT_MESSAGE_RESOURCES, DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOCALES);
-    }
-    return instance;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Create a <code>MessageProvider</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param resourceNames The names of the resources containing the messages.
-   * @param locales The corresponding locales.
-   */
-  protected MessageProvider(String[] resourceNames, Locale[] locales) {
-    this.messages = new Messages(resourceNames, locales);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Get the message corresponding to a given message ID.
-   *
-   * @param messageId The ID of the message.
-   * @param parameters The parameters to fill in into the message arguments.
-   * @return The formatted message. 
-   */
-  public String getMessage(String messageId, Object[] parameters) {
-    return messages.getMessage(messageId, parameters);
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Messages.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Messages.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a0139ae93..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/Messages.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.text.MessageFormat;
-import java.util.Locale;
-import java.util.MissingResourceException;
-import java.util.PropertyResourceBundle;
-
-import at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging.Logger;
-
-/**
- * Provides access to the system messages resource used for exception handling
- * and logging messages.
- * 
- * Messages must be provided as a resource bundle at the path.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class Messages {
-  /** Error message indicating that no messages are avaiable. */
-  private static final String ERROR_MESSAGES_UNAVAILABLE =
-    "Fehler in der Server-Konfiguration. "
-      + "Die Fehlertexte konnten nicht geladen werden.";
-  /** Error message indicating that the message is not available. */
-  private static final String ERROR_NO_MESSAGE =
-    "Keine Fehlermeldung für Fehler-Nr.={0}";
-
-  /** The names of the resources containing the messages. */
-  private String[] resourceNames;
-  /** The corresponding <code>Locale</code>s of the resources. */
-  private Locale[] locales;
-  /** The <code>ResourceBundle</code>s containing the messages. */
-  private ResourceBundleChain messages;
-
-  /**
-   * Create a new <code>Message</code> object containing the messages
-   * in the given resources.
-   * 
-   * @param resourceNames The names of the resources containing the messages.
-   * @param locales The corresponding locales.
-   */
-  public Messages(String[] resourceNames, Locale[] locales) {
-    this.resourceNames = resourceNames;
-    this.locales = locales;
-    this.messages = null;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Get the message corresponding to a given message ID.
-   *
-   * @param messageId The ID of the message.
-   * @param parameters The parameters to fill in into the message arguments.
-   * @return The formatted message. 
-   */
-  public String getMessage(String messageId, Object[] parameters) {
-    // initialize messages
-    if (messages == null) {
-      initMessages();
-    }
-
-    // create the message
-    if (messages == null) {
-      return ERROR_MESSAGES_UNAVAILABLE;
-    } else {
-      try {
-        String rawMessage = messages.getString(messageId);
-        return MessageFormat.format(rawMessage, parameters);
-      } catch (MissingResourceException e2) {
-        // couldn't find any message -> set to default error message 
-        return MessageFormat.format(
-          ERROR_NO_MESSAGE,
-          new Object[] { messageId });
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return the names of the resources containing the messages.
-   * 
-   * @return String[] The names of the resource bundles containing the messages.
-   */
-  private String[] getResourceNames() {
-    return resourceNames;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return the <code>Locale</code>s of the resources containing the messages.
-   * 
-   * @return Locale[] The <code>Locale</code>s of the resource bundles
-   * containing the messages.
-   */
-  private Locale[] getLocales() {
-    return locales;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Initialize the <code>messages</code> <code>ResourceBundle</code> containing
-   * the MOA error messages.
-   */
-  private void initMessages() {
-    messages = new ResourceBundleChain();
-    int i;
-
-    // initialize the message resources
-    for (i = 0; i < resourceNames.length; i++) {
-      try {
-        messages.addResourceBundle(
-          PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle(
-            getResourceNames()[i],
-            getLocales()[i]));
-      } catch (MissingResourceException e) {
-        Logger.error(ERROR_MESSAGES_UNAVAILABLE, e);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/NodeIteratorAdapter.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/NodeIteratorAdapter.java
deleted file mode 100644
index f71aa472d..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/NodeIteratorAdapter.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.ListIterator;
-
-import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
-import org.w3c.dom.Node;
-import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter;
-import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator;
-
-/**
- * A <code>NodeIterator</code> implementation based on a
- * <code>ListIterator</code>.
- * 
- * @see java.util.ListIterator
- * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class NodeIteratorAdapter implements NodeIterator {
-
-  /** The <code>ListIterator</code> to wrap. */
-  private ListIterator nodeIterator;
-
-  /**
-   * Create a new <code>NodeIteratorAdapter</code>.
-   * @param nodeIterator The <code>ListIterator</code> to iterate over.
-   */
-  public NodeIteratorAdapter(ListIterator nodeIterator) {
-    this.nodeIterator = nodeIterator;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator#getRoot()
-   */
-  public Node getRoot() {
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator#getWhatToShow()
-   */
-  public int getWhatToShow() {
-    return NodeFilter.SHOW_ALL;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator#getFilter()
-   */
-  public NodeFilter getFilter() {
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator#getExpandEntityReferences()
-   */
-  public boolean getExpandEntityReferences() {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator#nextNode()
-   */
-  public Node nextNode() throws DOMException {
-    if (nodeIterator.hasNext()) {
-      return (Node) nodeIterator.next();
-    }
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator#previousNode()
-   */
-  public Node previousNode() throws DOMException {
-    if (nodeIterator.hasPrevious()) {
-      return (Node) nodeIterator.previous();
-    }
-    return null;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator#detach()
-   */
-  public void detach() {
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/NodeListAdapter.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/NodeListAdapter.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 7102cadca..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/NodeListAdapter.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.List;
-
-import org.w3c.dom.Node;
-import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
-
-/**
- * A <code>NodeList</code> implementation based on a <code>List</code>.
- * 
- * @see java.util.List
- * @see org.w3c.dom.NodeList
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class NodeListAdapter implements NodeList {
-  /** The <code>List</code> to wrap. */
-  private List nodeList;
-  
-  /**
-   * Create a new <code>NodeListAdapter</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param nodeList The <code>List</code> containing the nodes. 
-   */
-  public NodeListAdapter(List nodeList) {
-    this.nodeList = nodeList;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.NodeList#item(int)
-   */
-  public Node item(int index) {
-    return (Node) nodeList.get(index);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see org.w3c.dom.NodeList#getLength()
-   */
-  public int getLength() {
-    return nodeList.size();
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/OutputXML2File.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/OutputXML2File.java
deleted file mode 100644
index f9d330d41..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/OutputXML2File.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Created on 26.04.2004
- *
- * @author rschamberger
- * $ID$
- */
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import org.w3c.dom.Element;
-
-import at.gv.egovernment.moa.logging.Logger;
-
-/**
- * utility functions to write XML data to files
- * @author rschamberger
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class OutputXML2File {
-
-	/**
-	 * writes an XML structure to file if debug is enabled in hierarchy (Encoding: UTF-8)
-	 * 
-	 * @param filename file name
-	 * @param rootElem root element in DOM tree
-	 * @param hierarchy of the Logger
-	 */
-	public static void debugOutputXML2File(String filename, Element rootElem, String hierarchy) {
-		if (Logger.isDebugEnabled(hierarchy)) {
-			outputXML2File(filename, rootElem);
-		}
-	}
-	
-	/**
-	 * writes an XML structure to file if debug is enabled in hierarchy (Encoding: UTF-8)
-	 * 
-	 * @param filename file name
-	 * @param xmlString XML string
-	 * @param hierarchy of the Logger 
-	 */
-	public static void debugOutputXML2File(String filename, String xmlString, String hierarchy) {
-		if (Logger.isDebugEnabled(hierarchy)) {
-			outputXML2File(filename, xmlString);
-		}
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * writes an XML structure to file (Encoding: UTF-8)
-	 * 
-	 * @param filename file name
-	 * @param rootElem root element in DOM tree
-	 */
-	public static void outputXML2File(String filename, Element rootElem) {
-		try {
-			String xmlString = new String(DOMUtils.serializeNode(rootElem));
-			outputXML2File(filename, xmlString);
-		} catch (Exception ex) {
-			ex.printStackTrace();
-		}
-	}
-	
-	/**
-	 * writes an XML structure to file (Encoding: UTF-8)
-	 * 
-	 * @param filename file name
-	 * @param xmlString XML string
-	 */
-	public static void outputXML2File(String filename, String xmlString) {
-		try {
-			java.io.OutputStream fout = new java.io.FileOutputStream(filename);
-			byte[] xmlData = xmlString.getBytes("UTF-8");
-			fout.write(xmlData);
-			fout.close();
-		} catch (Exception ex) {
-			ex.printStackTrace();
-		}
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/ResourceBundleChain.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/ResourceBundleChain.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 90b28548a..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/ResourceBundleChain.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.MissingResourceException;
-import java.util.ResourceBundle;
-
-/**
- * A class to chain <code>ResourceBundle</code>s.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class ResourceBundleChain {
-  /** Error message indicating the resource is not available. */
-  private static final String ERROR_MISSING_RESOURCE = "Missing resource";
-  /** The <code>ResourceBundle</code>s contained in this chain. */
-  private List resourceBundles = new ArrayList();
-
-  /**
-   * Add a <code>ResourceBundle</code> to the chain.
-   * 
-   * @param resourceBundle The <code>ResourceBundle</code> to add.
-   */
-  public void addResourceBundle(ResourceBundle resourceBundle) {
-    resourceBundles.add(resourceBundle);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return the value of the resource.
-   * 
-   * @param key The key to access the <code>String</code> resource.
-   * @return The resource value. All the registered <code>ResourceBundle</code>s
-   * are searched in the order in which they have previously been added to this
-   * <code>ResourceBundleChain</code>.
-   * @throws MissingResourceException The resource coult not be found in any of
-   * the bundles.
-   */
-  public String getString(String key) throws MissingResourceException {
-    MissingResourceException lastException = null;
-    Iterator iter;
-
-    // handle case where no resource bundles have been added
-    if (resourceBundles.size() == 0) {
-      throw new MissingResourceException(
-        ERROR_MISSING_RESOURCE,
-        this.getClass().getName(),
-        key);
-    }
-
-    // try to find the resource in one of the bundles; if it cannot be found,
-    // return the exception thrown by the last bundle in the list
-    for (iter = resourceBundles.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
-      ResourceBundle resourceBundle = (ResourceBundle) iter.next();
-      try {
-        String value = resourceBundle.getString(key);
-        return value;
-      } catch (MissingResourceException e) {
-        lastException = e;
-      }
-    }
-    throw lastException;
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/SSLUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/SSLUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index ada21b412..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/SSLUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,221 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
-import java.security.KeyStore;
-
-import javax.net.ssl.KeyManager;
-import javax.net.ssl.KeyManagerFactory;
-import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
-import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
-import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
-import javax.net.ssl.TrustManagerFactory;
-
-/**
- * Utility for connecting to server applications via SSL.
- * 
- * @author Paul Ivancsics
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class SSLUtils {
-	
-	/**
-	 * Creates an <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> which utilizes the given trust store.
-	 * 
-   * @param trustStoreType key store type of trust store
-   * @param trustStoreInputStream input stream for reading JKS trust store containing
-   * 				 trusted server certificates; if <code>null</code>, the default
-   * 				 trust store will be utilized
-   * @param trustStorePassword if provided, it will be used to check 
-   * 				 the integrity of the trust store; if omitted, it will not be checked
-   * @return <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> to be used by an <code>HttpsURLConnection</code>
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading from the input stream
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the socket factory
-	 */
-  public static SSLSocketFactory getSSLSocketFactory(
-  	String trustStoreType,
-  	InputStream trustStoreInputStream,
-  	String trustStorePassword)
- 	  throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-  		
-	  TrustManager[] tms = getTrustManagers(trustStoreType, trustStoreInputStream, trustStorePassword);
-		SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
-		ctx.init(null, tms, null);
-
-    SSLSocketFactory sf = ctx.getSocketFactory();
-  	return sf;
-  }
-	/**
-	 * Creates an <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> which utilizes the
-	 * given trust store and keystore.
-	 * 
-   * @param trustStore trust store containing trusted server certificates; 
-   * 				 if <code>null</code>, the default trust store will be utilized
-   * @param clientKeyStoreType key store type of <code>clientKeyStore</code>
-   * @param clientKeyStoreURL URL of key store containing keys to be used for
-   * 				 client authentication; if <code>null</code>, the default key store will be utilized
-   * @param clientKeyStorePassword if provided, it will be used to check 
-   * 				 the integrity of the client key store; if omitted, it will not be checked
-   * @return <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> to be used by an <code>HttpsURLConnection</code>
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading key store file
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the socket factory
-	 */
-  public static SSLSocketFactory getSSLSocketFactory(
-  	KeyStore trustStore,
-  	String clientKeyStoreType,
-  	String clientKeyStoreURL,
-  	String clientKeyStorePassword)
- 	  throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-  		
-		SSLContext ctx = getSSLContext(
-			trustStore, clientKeyStoreType, clientKeyStoreURL, clientKeyStorePassword);
-    SSLSocketFactory sf = ctx.getSocketFactory();
-  	return sf;
-  }
-	/**
-	 * Creates an <code>SSLContext</code> initialized for the
-	 * given trust store and keystore.
-	 * 
-   * @param trustStore trust store containing trusted server certificates; 
-   * 				 if <code>null</code>, the default trust store will be utilized
-   * @param clientKeyStoreType key store type of <code>clientKeyStore</code>
-   * @param clientKeyStoreURL URL of key store containing keys to be used for
-   * 				 client authentication; if <code>null</code>, the default key store will be utilized
-   * @param clientKeyStorePassword if provided, it will be used to check 
-   * 				 the integrity of the client key store; if omitted, it will not be checked
-   * @return <code>SSLContext</code> to be used for creating an <code>SSLSocketFactory</code>
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading key store file
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while creating the SSL context
-	 */
-  public static SSLContext getSSLContext(
-  	KeyStore trustStore,
-  	String clientKeyStoreType,
-  	String clientKeyStoreURL,
-  	String clientKeyStorePassword)
- 	  throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-  		
-    //System.setProperty("javax.net.debug", "all");
-	  TrustManager[] tms = getTrustManagers(trustStore);
-		KeyManager[] kms = getKeyManagers(clientKeyStoreType, clientKeyStoreURL, clientKeyStorePassword);
-		SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
-		ctx.init(kms, tms, null);
-		return ctx;
-  }
-  /**
-   * Loads the trust store from an input stream and gets the 
-   * <code>TrustManager</code>s from a default <code>TrustManagerFactory</code>,
-	 * initialized from the given trust store.
-   * @param trustStoreType key store type of trust store
-   * @param trustStoreInputStream input stream for reading JKS trust store containing
-   * 				 trusted server certificates; if <code>null</code>, the default
-   * 				 trust store will be utilized
-   * @param trustStorePassword if provided, it will be used to check 
-   * 				 the integrity of the trust store; if omitted, it will not be checked
-	 * @return <code>TrustManager</code>s to be used for creating an 
-	 * 				  <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> utilizing the given trust store
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading from the input stream
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while initializing the 
-   * 					default <code>TrustManagerFactory</code>
-   */
-	protected static TrustManager[] getTrustManagers(
-		String trustStoreType,
-		InputStream trustStoreInputStream,
-  	String trustStorePassword)
-	  throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-	  	
-	  if (trustStoreInputStream == null)
-	  	return null;
-
-	  // Set up the TrustStore to use. We need to load the file into
-	  // a KeyStore instance.
-		KeyStore trustStore = KeyStoreUtils.loadKeyStore(trustStoreType, trustStoreInputStream, trustStorePassword);
-		return getTrustManagers(trustStore);
-	}
-	/**
-	 * Gets the <code>TrustManager</code>s from a default <code>TrustManagerFactory</code>,
-	 * initialized from the given trust store.
-	 * 
-	 * @param trustStore the trust store to use
-	 * @return <code>TrustManager</code>s to be used for creating an 
-	 * 				  <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> utilizing the given trust store
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while initializing the 
-   * 					default <code>TrustManagerFactory</code>
-	 */
-	protected static TrustManager[] getTrustManagers(KeyStore trustStore)
-	  throws GeneralSecurityException {
-	  	
-	  if (trustStore == null)
-	  	return null;
-
-	  // Initialize the default TrustManagerFactory with this KeyStore
-	  String alg=TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm();
-	  TrustManagerFactory tmFact=TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(alg);
-	  tmFact.init(trustStore);
-	
-	  // And now get the TrustManagers
-	  TrustManager[] tms=tmFact.getTrustManagers();
-	  return tms;
-	}
-  /**
-   * Loads the client key store from file and gets the 
-   * <code>KeyManager</code>s from a default <code>KeyManagerFactory</code>,
-	 * initialized from the given client key store.
-   * @param clientKeyStoreType key store type of <code>clientKeyStore</code>
-   * @param clientKeyStoreURL URL of key store containing keys to be used for
-   * 				 client authentication; if <code>null</code>, the default key store will be utilized
-   * @param clientKeyStorePassword password used to check the integrity of the client key store; 
-   * 				 if <code>null</code>, it will not be checked
-	 * @return <code>KeyManager</code>s to be used for creating an 
-	 * 				  <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> utilizing the given client key store
-   * @throws IOException thrown while reading from the key store file
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while initializing the 
-   * 					default <code>KeyManagerFactory</code>
-   */
-  public static KeyManager[] getKeyManagers (
-		String clientKeyStoreType,
-		String clientKeyStoreURL,
-  	String clientKeyStorePassword)
-	  throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
-  
-  	if (clientKeyStoreURL == null)
-  		return null;
-  		
-	  // Set up the KeyStore to use. We need to load the file into
-	  // a KeyStore instance.
-	  KeyStore clientKeyStore = KeyStoreUtils.loadKeyStore(
-	  	clientKeyStoreType, clientKeyStoreURL, clientKeyStorePassword);
-		return getKeyManagers(clientKeyStore, clientKeyStorePassword);
-	}  
-  /**
-   * Gets the <code>KeyManager</code>s from a default <code>KeyManagerFactory</code>,
-	 * initialized from the given client key store.
-   * @param clientKeyStore client key store
-   * @param clientKeyStorePassword if provided, it will be used to check 
-   * 				 the integrity of the client key store; if omitted, it will not be checked
-	 * @return <code>KeyManager</code>s to be used for creating an 
-	 * 				  <code>SSLSocketFactory</code> utilizing the given client key store
-   * @throws GeneralSecurityException thrown while initializing the 
-   * 					default <code>KeyManagerFactory</code>
-   */
-	public static KeyManager[] getKeyManagers (
-		KeyStore clientKeyStore,
-  	String clientKeyStorePassword)
-	  throws GeneralSecurityException {
-  
-  	if (clientKeyStore == null)
-  		return null;
-  		
-	  // Now we initialize the default KeyManagerFactory with this KeyStore
-	  String alg=KeyManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm();
-	  KeyManagerFactory kmFact=KeyManagerFactory.getInstance(alg);
-  	char[] password = null;
-  	if (clientKeyStorePassword != null)
-  		password = clientKeyStorePassword.toCharArray();
-	  kmFact.init(clientKeyStore, password);
-	
-	  // And now get the KeyManagers
-	  KeyManager[] kms=kmFact.getKeyManagers();
-	  return kms;
-	}  
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StreamEntityResolver.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StreamEntityResolver.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 38c4e863c..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StreamEntityResolver.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-
-/**
- * An <code>EntityResolver</code> that maps system IDs to 
- * <code>InputStream</code>s.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class StreamEntityResolver implements EntityResolver {
-  
-  /** A mapping from Public ID or System ID to an <code>InputStream</code>
-   * containing the entity. */
-  private Map mappedEntities;
-  
-  /**
-   * Create a <code>StreamEntityResolver</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param mappedEntities A mapping from public or system IDs 
-   * (<code>String</code> objects) to <code>InputStream</code>s. 
-   */
-  public StreamEntityResolver(Map mappedEntities) {
-    this.mappedEntities = mappedEntities;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Resolve an entity by looking it up in the mapped entities.
-   * 
-   * First, the public ID is looked up in the mapping, then the system ID.
-   * 
-   * @param publicId The public ID of the entity.
-   * @param systemId The system ID of the entity.
-   * @return An <code>InputStream</code> containing the entity or 
-   * <code>null</code> if no entity could be found. 
-   * @throws SAXException Signalling a parsing exception.
-   * @throws IOException Error reading the entity.
-   */
-  public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) 
-    throws SAXException, IOException {
-      
-    InputSource src = null;
-      
-    if (publicId != null && mappedEntities.get(publicId) != null) {
-      src = new InputSource((InputStream) mappedEntities.get(publicId));
-    } else if (systemId != null && mappedEntities.get(systemId) != null) {
-      src = new InputSource((InputStream) mappedEntities.get(systemId));
-    }
-    
-    if (src != null) {
-      src.setPublicId(publicId);
-      src.setSystemId(systemId);
-    }
-    
-    return src;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StreamUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StreamUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a22f1c2a8..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StreamUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.PrintStream;
-
-/**
- * Utility methods for streams.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class StreamUtils {
-  
-  /**
-   * Compare the contents of two <code>InputStream</code>s.
-   * 
-   * @param is1 The 1st <code>InputStream</code> to compare.
-   * @param is2 The 2nd <code>InputStream</code> to compare.
-   * @return boolean <code>true</code>, if both streams contain the exactly the
-   * same content, <code>false</code> otherwise.
-   * @throws IOException An error occurred reading one of the streams.
-   */
-  public static boolean compareStreams(InputStream is1, InputStream is2) 
-    throws IOException {
-      
-    byte[] buf1 = new byte[256];
-    byte[] buf2 = new byte[256];
-    int length1;
-    int length2;
-  
-    try {
-      while (true) {
-        length1 = is1.read(buf1);
-        length2 = is2.read(buf2);
-        
-        if (length1 != length2) {
-          return false;
-        }
-        if (length1 <= 0) {
-          return true;
-        }
-        if (!compareBytes(buf1, buf2, length1)) {
-          return false;
-        }
-      }
-    } catch (IOException e) {
-      throw e;
-    } finally {
-      // close both streams
-      try {
-        is1.close();
-        is2.close();
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        // ignore this
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Compare two byte arrays, up to a given maximum length.
-   * 
-   * @param b1 1st byte array to compare.
-   * @param b2 2nd byte array to compare.
-   * @param length The maximum number of bytes to compare.
-   * @return <code>true</code>, if the byte arrays are equal, <code>false</code>
-   * otherwise.
-   */
-  private static boolean compareBytes(byte[] b1, byte[] b2, int length) {
-    if (b1.length != b2.length) {
-      return false;
-    }
-  
-    for (int i = 0; i < b1.length && i < length; i++) {
-      if (b1[i] != b2[i]) {
-        return false;
-      }
-    }
-  
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Reads a byte array from a stream.
-   * @param in The <code>InputStream</code> to read.
-   * @return The bytes contained in the given <code>InputStream</code>.
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static byte[] readStream(InputStream in) throws IOException {
-    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    int b;
-    while ((b = in.read()) >= 0)
-      out.write(b);
-    in.close();
-    return out.toByteArray();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Reads a <code>String</code> from a stream, using given encoding.
-   * @param in The <code>InputStream</code> to read.
-   * @param encoding The character encoding to use for converting the bytes
-   * of the <code>InputStream</code> into a <code>String</code>.
-   * @return The content of the given <code>InputStream</code> converted into
-   * a <code>String</code>.
-   * @throws IOException on any exception thrown
-   */
-  public static String readStream(InputStream in, String encoding) throws IOException {
-    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    int b;
-    while ((b = in.read()) >= 0)
-      out.write(b);
-    in.close();
-    return out.toString(encoding);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Gets the stack trace of the <code>Throwable</code> passed in as a string.
-   * @param t The <code>Throwable</code>.
-   * @return a String representing the stack trace of the <code>Throwable</code>.
-   */
-  public static String getStackTraceAsString(Throwable t)
-  {
-    ByteArrayOutputStream stackTraceBIS = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    t.printStackTrace(new PrintStream(stackTraceBIS));
-    return new String(stackTraceBIS.toByteArray());
-  }
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StringUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StringUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 61b1a18ea..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/StringUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (C) 2002 IAIK
-// email: jce-info@iaik.tu-graz.ac.at
-//
-// All rights reserved.
-//
-// This source is provided for inspection purposes and recompilation only,
-// unless specified differently in a contract with IAIK. This source has to
-// be kept in strict confidence and must not be disclosed to any third party
-// under any circumstances. Redistribution in source and binary forms, with
-// or without modification, are <not> permitted in any case!
-//
-// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
-// ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
-// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
-// ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
-// FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
-// DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
-// OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
-// HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
-// LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
-// OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
-// SUCH DAMAGE.
-//
-
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.StringTokenizer;
-
-/**
- * Utitility functions for string manipulations.
- * 
- * @author Harald Bratko
- */
-public class StringUtils {
-
-  /**
-   * Removes all blanks and tabs from the given string.
-   * 
-   * @param s The string to remove all blanks and tabs from.
-   * @return  The input string with all blanks and tabs removed from. 
-   */
-  public static String removeBlanks(String s) {
-    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s);
-    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(s.length());
-    while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
-      sb.append(st.nextToken());
-    }
-    return sb.toString();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Removes all occurences of the specified token from the the given string.
-   * 
-   * @param s The string to remove all occurences of the specified token from.
-   * @return  The input string with all occurences of the specified token removed from. 
-   */
-  public static String removeToken(String s, String token) {
-    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s, token);
-    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(s.length());
-    while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
-      sb.append(st.nextToken());
-    }
-    return sb.toString();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Removes all leading zeros from the input string.
-   * 
-   * @param s       The string remove the leading zeros from.
-   * @return        The input string with the leading zeros removed from.
-   */
-  public static String deleteLeadingZeros(String s) {
-    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(s);
-    int l = sb.length();
-    int j = 0;
-    for (int i=0; i<l; i++) {
-      if (sb.charAt(i) == '0') {
-        j++;
-      } else {
-        break;
-      }
-    }
-    return sb.substring(j, l);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Replaces each substring of string <code>s</code> that matches the given
-   * <code>search</code> string by the given <code>replace</code> string.
-   * 
-   * @param s         The string where the replacment should take place.
-   * @param search    The pattern that should be replaced.
-   * @param replace   The string that should replace all each <code>search</code>
-   *                  string within <code>s</code>.
-   * @return          A string whrer all occurrence of <code>search</code> are
-   *                  replaced with <code>replace</code>.
-   */
-  public static String replaceAll (String s, String search, String replace)
-  {
-     StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
-     int i = 0, j = 0;
-     int len = search.length();
-     while (j > -1)
-     {
-         j = s.indexOf(search, i);
-
-         if (j > -1)
-         {
-           sb.append(s.substring(i,j));
-           sb.append(replace);
-           i = j + len;
-         }
-     }
-     
-     sb.append(s.substring(i, s.length()));
-
-     return sb.toString();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Changes the SecurityLayer version in the given string.
-   * This method usually takes as input an XML structure represented in a string
-   * format and changes the SecurityLayer namespaces prefixes and URIs from
-   * one SecurityLayer version to another.
-   * e.g.: code>sl10</code> to <code>sl</code> and 
-   * <code>http://www.buergerkarte.at/namespaces/securitylayer/20020225#</code>
-   * to
-   * <code>http://www.buergerkarte.at/namespaces/securitylayer/1.2#</code> 
-   * 
-   * @param s             The string (usally an XML structure) where the
-   *                      SecurityLayer version should be changed.
-   * @param slPrefixOld   The SecurityLayer namespace prefix that should be  
-   *                      replaced by the new one.
-   * @param slPrefixNew   The new SecurityLayer namespace prefix that should 
-   *                      replace the old one.
-   * @param slNSUriOld    The SecurityLayer namespace URI that should be  
-   *                      replaced by the new one.
-   * @param slNSUriNew    The new SecurityLayer namespace URI that should 
-   *                      replace the old one.
-   * @return              A string where the SecurityLayer namespace prefixes
-   *                      and URIs are replaced by new ones.
-   */
-  public static String changeSLVersion(String s, String slPrefixOld, String slPrefixNew, String slNSUriOld, String slNSUriNew) {
-    String retString = replaceAll(s, slPrefixOld, slPrefixNew);
-    retString = replaceAll(retString, slNSUriOld, slNSUriNew);
-    return retString ;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Removes the XML declaration from an XML expression.
-   * 
-   * @param xmlString XML expression as String
-   * 
-   * @return XML expression, XML declaration removed
-   */
-  public static String removeXMLDeclaration(String xmlString) {
-    if (xmlString.startsWith("<?xml")) {
-      int firstElement = xmlString.indexOf("<", 1);
-      return xmlString.substring(firstElement);
-    } else {
-      return xmlString;
-    }
-  }
-  
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/URLDecoder.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/URLDecoder.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a20820f7e..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/URLDecoder.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.StringReader;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-
-/**
- * Decodes an URL encoded String using a specified character encoding.
- * Provides a function missing in JDK 1.3. 
- * @author Paul Ivancsics
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class URLDecoder {
-
-  /**
-   * Decodes an <code>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</code> string using a specific encoding scheme.
-   * @param s the string to decode
-   * @param encoding name of character encoding
-   * @return the newly decoded string
-   * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException if the encoding is not supported
-   */
-  public static String decode(String s, String encoding) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
-    StringReader in = new StringReader(s);
-    ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    for (int b = read(in); b >= 0; b = read(in))
-      bout.write(b);
-    return bout.toString(encoding);
-  }
-  /**
-   * Decodes the next byte from the string reader.
-   * @param in string reader
-   * @return the next byte decoded; 
-   *          -1 upon end of string, on erroneous data, and on any exception caught
-   * @todo syntax check on string
-   */
-  private static int read(StringReader in) {
-    try { 
-      int b = in.read();
-      if (b == '+')
-        return ' ';
-      if (b == '%') {
-        char[] hex = new char[2];
-        if (in.read(hex, 0, 2) >= 0) {
-          String hexString = new String(hex);
-          return Integer.valueOf(hexString, 16).intValue();
-        }
-        else
-          return -1;
-      }
-      return b;
-    } 
-    catch (IOException ex) { 
-      return -1; 
-    }
-    catch (NumberFormatException ex) { 
-      return -1; 
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/URLEncoder.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/URLEncoder.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 840c0c3bc..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/URLEncoder.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-
-/**
- * Translates a string into mime format "x-www-form-urlencoded".
- * Provides a function missing in JDK 1.3. 
- * @author Paul Ivancsics
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class URLEncoder {
-  
-  /**
-   * Translates a string into x-www-form-urlencoded format.
-   * @param s the string to be translated
-   * @param encoding the encoding to use
-   * @return the translated string
-   * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException when the desired encoding is not supported
-   */
-  public static String encode(String s, String encoding) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
-    byte[] barr = s.getBytes(encoding);
-    ByteArrayInputStream bin = new ByteArrayInputStream(barr);
-    StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
-    for (int b = bin.read(); b >= 0; b = bin.read())
-      encode(b, out);
-    return out.toString();
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Encode a character.
-   * @param ch The character to encode.
-   * @param out The <code>StringWriter</code> containing the result.
-   */
-  private static void encode(int ch, StringWriter out) {
-    if ((ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z')
-      || (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z')
-      || (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9')
-      || ch == '.' || ch == '-' || ch == '*' || ch == '_')
-      out.write(ch);
-    else if (ch == ' ')
-      out.write('+');
-    else
-      encodeHex(ch, out);
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Encode a character as an escaped hex value. 
-   * @param ch The character to encode.
-   * @param out The <code>StringWriter</code> containing the result.
-   */
-  private static void encodeHex(int ch, StringWriter out) {
-    out.write('%');
-    String hex = Integer.toHexString(ch).toUpperCase();
-    if (hex.length() < 2)
-      out.write('0');
-    else
-      out.write(hex.charAt(hex.length() - 2));
-    out.write(hex.charAt(hex.length() - 1));
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/XPathException.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/XPathException.java
deleted file mode 100644
index e10c882e5..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/XPathException.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.io.PrintStream;
-import java.io.PrintWriter;
-
-/**
- * An exception occurred evaluating an XPath.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class XPathException extends RuntimeException {
-  /** The wrapped exception. */
-  private Throwable wrapped;
-  
-  /**
-   * Create a <code>XPathException</code>.
-   * 
-   * @param message The exception message.
-   * @param wrapped The exception being the likely cause of this exception.
-   */
-  public XPathException(String message, Throwable wrapped) {
-    super(message);
-    this.wrapped = wrapped; 
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Return the wrapped exception.
-   * 
-   * @return The wrapped exception being the likely cause of this exception.
-   */
-  public Throwable getWrapped() {
-    return wrapped;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see java.lang.Throwable#printStackTrace(java.io.PrintStream)
-   */
-  public void printStackTrace(PrintStream s) {
-    super.printStackTrace(s);
-    if (getWrapped() != null) {
-      s.print("Caused by: ");
-      getWrapped().printStackTrace(s);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * @see java.lang.Throwable#printStackTrace(java.io.PrintWriter)
-   */
-  public void printStackTrace(PrintWriter s) {
-    super.printStackTrace(s);
-    if (getWrapped() != null) {
-      s.print("Caused by: ");
-      getWrapped().printStackTrace(s);
-    }
-  }
- 
-}
diff --git a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/XPathUtils.java b/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/XPathUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 5212ed13e..000000000
--- a/common/src/at/gv/egovernment/moa/util/XPathUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,526 +0,0 @@
-package at.gv.egovernment.moa.util;
-
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
-import org.w3c.dom.Element;
-import org.w3c.dom.Node;
-import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
-import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeIterator;
-
-import org.jaxen.JaxenException;
-import org.jaxen.NamespaceContext;
-import org.jaxen.SimpleNamespaceContext;
-import org.jaxen.dom.DOMXPath;
-import org.jaxen.dom.DocumentNavigator;
-
-/**
- * Utility methods to evaluate XPath expressions on DOM nodes.
- * 
- * @author Patrick Peck
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class XPathUtils {
-
-  /**
-   * The XPath expression selecting all nodes under a given root (including the
-   * root node itself).
-   */
-  public static final String ALL_NODES_XPATH =
-    "(.//. | .//@* | .//namespace::*)";
-
-  /** The <code>DocumentNavigator</code> to use for navigating the document. */
-  private static DocumentNavigator documentNavigator =
-    DocumentNavigator.getInstance();
-  /** The default namespace prefix to namespace URI mappings. */
-  private static NamespaceContext NS_CONTEXT;
-
-  static {
-    SimpleNamespaceContext ctx = new SimpleNamespaceContext();
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.MOA_PREFIX, Constants.MOA_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.MOA_CONFIG_PREFIX, Constants.MOA_CONFIG_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.MOA_ID_CONFIG_PREFIX, Constants.MOA_ID_CONFIG_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.SL10_PREFIX, Constants.SL10_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.SL11_PREFIX, Constants.SL11_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.SL12_PREFIX, Constants.SL12_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.ECDSA_PREFIX, Constants.ECDSA_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.PD_PREFIX, Constants.PD_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.SAML_PREFIX, Constants.SAML_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.SAMLP_PREFIX, Constants.SAMLP_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.DSIG_PREFIX, Constants.DSIG_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.XSLT_PREFIX, Constants.XSLT_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.XSI_PREFIX, Constants.XSI_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.DSIG_FILTER2_PREFIX, Constants.DSIG_FILTER2_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.DSIG_EC_PREFIX, Constants.DSIG_EC_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.MD_PREFIX, Constants.MD_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.MDP_PREFIX, Constants.MDP_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.MVV_PREFIX, Constants.MVV_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.STB_PREFIX, Constants.STB_NS_URI);
-    ctx.addNamespace(Constants.WRR_PREFIX, Constants.WRR_NS_URI);
-    NS_CONTEXT = ctx;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeIterator</code> over the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * All namespace URIs and prefixes declared in the <code>Constants</code>
-   * interface are used for resolving namespaces.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return An iterator over the resulting nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static NodeIterator selectNodeIterator(Node contextNode, String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    return selectNodeIterator(contextNode, NS_CONTEXT, exp);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeIterator</code> over the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param namespaceElement An element from which to build the
-   * namespace mapping for evaluating the XPath expression
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return An iterator over the resulting nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static NodeIterator selectNodeIterator(
-    Node contextNode,
-    Element namespaceElement,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    try {
-      SimpleNamespaceContext ctx = new SimpleNamespaceContext();
-      ctx.addElementNamespaces(documentNavigator, namespaceElement);
-      return selectNodeIterator(contextNode, ctx, exp);
-    } catch (JaxenException e) {
-      MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-      String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { exp });
-      throw new XPathException(message, e);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeIterator</code> over the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param namespaceMapping A namespace prefix to namespace URI mapping
-   * (<code>String</code> to <code>String</code>) for evaluating the XPath 
-   * expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return An iterator over the resulting nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static NodeIterator selectNodeIterator(
-    Node contextNode,
-    Map namespaceMapping,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    SimpleNamespaceContext ctx = new SimpleNamespaceContext(namespaceMapping);
-
-    return selectNodeIterator(contextNode, ctx, exp);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeIterator</code> over the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param nsContext The <code>NamespaceContext</code> for resolving namespace
-   * prefixes to namespace URIs for evaluating the XPath expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return An iterator over the resulting nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  private static NodeIterator selectNodeIterator(
-    Node contextNode,
-    NamespaceContext nsContext,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    try {
-      DOMXPath xpath = new DOMXPath(exp);
-      List nodes;
-
-      xpath.setNamespaceContext(nsContext);
-      nodes = xpath.selectNodes(contextNode);
-      return new NodeIteratorAdapter(nodes.listIterator());
-    } catch (JaxenException e) {
-      MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-      String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { exp });
-      throw new XPathException(message, e);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeList</code> of all the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * All namespace URIs and prefixes declared in the <code>Constants</code>
-   * interface are used for resolving namespaces.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return A <code>NodeList</code> containing the matching nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static NodeList selectNodeList(Node contextNode, String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    return selectNodeList(contextNode, NS_CONTEXT, exp);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeList</code> of all the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param namespaceElement An element from which to build the
-   * namespace mapping for evaluating the XPath expression
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return A <code>NodeList</code> containing the matching nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static NodeList selectNodeList(
-    Node contextNode,
-    Element namespaceElement,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    try {
-      SimpleNamespaceContext ctx = new SimpleNamespaceContext();
-
-      ctx.addElementNamespaces(documentNavigator, namespaceElement);
-      return selectNodeList(contextNode, ctx, exp);
-    } catch (JaxenException e) {
-      MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-      String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { exp });
-      throw new XPathException(message, e);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeList</code> of all the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param namespaceMapping A namespace prefix to namespace URI mapping
-   * (<code>String</code> to <code>String</code>) for evaluating the XPath 
-   * expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return A <code>NodeList</code> containing the matching nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static NodeList selectNodeList(
-    Node contextNode,
-    Map namespaceMapping,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    SimpleNamespaceContext ctx = new SimpleNamespaceContext(namespaceMapping);
-
-    return selectNodeList(contextNode, ctx, exp);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return a <code>NodeList</code> of all the nodes matching the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param nsContext The <code>NamespaceContext</code> for resolving namespace
-   * prefixes to namespace URIs for evaluating the XPath expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return A <code>NodeList</code> containing the matching nodes.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  private static NodeList selectNodeList(
-    Node contextNode,
-    NamespaceContext nsContext,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    try {
-      DOMXPath xpath = new DOMXPath(exp);
-      List nodes;
-
-      xpath.setNamespaceContext(nsContext);
-      nodes = xpath.selectNodes(contextNode);
-      return new NodeListAdapter(nodes);
-    } catch (JaxenException e) {
-      MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-      String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { exp });
-      throw new XPathException(message, e);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Select the first node matching an XPath expression.
-   * 
-   * All namespace URIs and prefixes declared in the <code>Constants</code>
-   * interface are used for resolving namespaces.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return Node The first node matching the XPath expression, or
-   * <code>null</code>, if no node matched.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static Node selectSingleNode(Node contextNode, String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    return selectSingleNode(contextNode, NS_CONTEXT, exp);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Select the first node matching an XPath expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param namespaceElement An element from which to build the
-   * namespace mapping for evaluating the XPath expression
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return Node The first node matching the XPath expression, or
-   * <code>null</code>, if no node matched.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static Node selectSingleNode(
-    Node contextNode,
-    Element namespaceElement,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    try {
-      SimpleNamespaceContext ctx = new SimpleNamespaceContext();
-      ctx.addElementNamespaces(documentNavigator, namespaceElement);
-
-      return selectSingleNode(contextNode, ctx, exp);
-    } catch (JaxenException e) {
-      MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-      String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { exp });
-      throw new XPathException(message, e);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Select the first node matching an XPath expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param namespaceMapping A namespace prefix to namespace URI mapping
-   * (<code>String</code> to <code>String</code>) for evaluating the XPath 
-   * expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return Node The first node matching the XPath expression, or
-   * <code>null</code>, if no node matched.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  public static Node selectSingleNode(
-    Node contextNode,
-    Map namespaceMapping,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    SimpleNamespaceContext ctx = new SimpleNamespaceContext(namespaceMapping);
-
-    return selectSingleNode(contextNode, ctx, exp);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Select the first node matching an XPath expression.
-   * 
-   * @param contextNode The root node from which to evaluate the XPath
-   * expression.
-   * @param nsContext The <code>NamespaceContext</code> for resolving namespace
-   * prefixes to namespace URIs for evaluating the XPath expression.
-   * @param exp The XPath expression to evaluate.
-   * @return Node The first node matching the XPath expression, or
-   * <code>null</code>, if no node matched.
-   * @throws XPathException An error occurred evaluating the XPath expression.
-   */
-  private static Node selectSingleNode(
-    Node contextNode,
-    NamespaceContext nsContext,
-    String exp)
-    throws XPathException {
-
-    try {
-      DOMXPath xpath = new DOMXPath(exp);
-      xpath.setNamespaceContext(nsContext);
-      return (Node) xpath.selectSingleNode(contextNode);
-    } catch (JaxenException e) {
-      MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-      String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { exp });
-      throw new XPathException(message, e);
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return the value of a DOM element whose location is given by an XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param root The root element from which to evaluate the XPath.
-   * @param xpath The XPath expression pointing to the element whose value
-   * to return.
-   * @param def The default value to return, if no element can be found using
-   * the given <code>xpath</code>.
-   * @return The element value, if it can be located using the
-   * <code>xpath</code>. Otherwise, <code>def</code> is returned.
-   */
-  public static String getElementValue(
-    Element root,
-    String xpath,
-    String def) {
-
-    Element elem = (Element) XPathUtils.selectSingleNode(root, xpath);
-    return elem != null ? DOMUtils.getText(elem) : def;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Return the value of a DOM attribute whose location is given by an XPath
-   * expression.
-   * 
-   * @param root The root element from which to evaluate the XPath.
-   * @param xpath The XPath expression pointing to the attribute whose value to
-   * return.
-   * @param def The default value to return, if no attribute can be found using
-   * the given <code>xpath</code>.
-   * @return The element value, if it can be located using the
-   * <code>xpath</code>. Otherwise, <code>def</code> is returned.
-   */
-  public static String getAttributeValue(
-    Element root,
-    String xpath,
-    String def) {
-
-    Attr attr = (Attr) XPathUtils.selectSingleNode(root, xpath);
-    return attr != null ? attr.getValue() : def;
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Returns the namespace prefix used within <code>XPathUtils</code> for referring to
-   * the namespace of the specified (Security Layer command) element.
-   * 
-   * This namespace prefix can be used in various XPath expression evaluation methods 
-   * within <code> XPathUtils</code> without explicitely binding it to the particular
-   * namespace.
-   * 
-   * @param contextElement The (Security Layer command) element. 
-   *            
-   * @return  the namespace prefix used within <code>XPathUtils</code> for referring to
-   *          the namespace of the specified (Security Layer command) element.
-   * 
-   * throws XpathException If the specified element has a namespace other than the ones
-   *        known by this implementation as valid Security Layer namespaces (cf. 
-   *        @link Constants#SL10_NS_URI, @link Constants#SL11_NS_URI, @link Constants#SL12_NS_URI).
-   */
-  public static String getSlPrefix (Element contextElement) throws XPathException 
-  {
-    String sLNamespace = contextElement.getNamespaceURI();
-    String sLPrefix = null;
-
-    if (sLNamespace.equals(Constants.SL10_NS_URI)) 
-    {
-      sLPrefix = Constants.SL10_PREFIX;
-    }  
-    else if (sLNamespace.equals(Constants.SL12_NS_URI)) 
-    {
-      sLPrefix = Constants.SL12_PREFIX;
-    }
-    else if (sLNamespace.equals(Constants.SL11_NS_URI)) 
-    {
-      sLPrefix = Constants.SL11_PREFIX;
-    } 
-    else 
-    {
-      MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-      String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { "Ungültiger Security Layer Namespace: \"" + sLNamespace + "\"."});
-      throw new XPathException(message, null);
-    }
-    
-    return sLPrefix;
-  }
-  
-  
-  /**
-   * Return the SecurityLayer namespace prefix of the context element.
-   * If the context element is not the element that lies within the 
-   * SecurityLayer namespace. The Securitylayer namespace is derived from
-   * the <code>xmlns:sl10</code>, <code>sl11</code> or <code>sl</code> 
-   * attribute of the context element.
-   * 
-   * The returned prefix is needed for evaluating XPATH expressions.
-   * 
-   * @param contextElement The element to get a prefix for the Securitylayer namespace,
-   *                       that is used within the corresponding document. 
-   *            
-   * @return  The string <code>sl10</code>, <code>sl11</code> or <code>sl</code>,
-   *          depending on the SecurityLayer namespace of the contextElement.
-   * 
-   * throws XPathException If no (vlalid) SecurityLayer namespace prefix or namespace
-   *                       is defined.
-   */
-  public static String getSlPrefixFromNoRoot (Element contextElement) throws XPathException {
-    
-    String slPrefix = checkSLnsDeclaration(contextElement, Constants.SL10_PREFIX, Constants.SL10_NS_URI);
-    if (slPrefix == null) {
-      slPrefix = checkSLnsDeclaration(contextElement, Constants.SL11_PREFIX, Constants.SL11_NS_URI);
-    }
-    if (slPrefix == null) {
-      slPrefix = checkSLnsDeclaration(contextElement, Constants.SL12_PREFIX, Constants.SL12_NS_URI);
-    }       
-     
-    return slPrefix;
-       
-  }
-  
-  /**
-   * Checks if the context element has an attribute <code>xmlns:slPrefix</code> and
-   * if the prefix of that attribute corresponds with a valid SecurityLayer namespace.
-   * 
-   * @param contextElement  The element to be checked.
-   * @param slPrefix        The prefix which should be checked. Must be a valid SecurityLayer
-   *                        namespace prefix.
-   * @param slNameSpace     The SecurityLayer namespace that corresponds to the specified prefix.
-   *  
-   * @return                The valid SecurityLayer prefix or <code>null</code> if this prefix is
-   *                        not used.
-   * @throws XPathException
-   */
-  private static String checkSLnsDeclaration(Element contextElement, String slPrefix, String slNameSpace)
-      throws XPathException 
-  {
-    String nsAtt = "xmlns:" + slPrefix;
-    String nameSpace = contextElement.getAttribute(nsAtt);
-    if (nameSpace == "") {
-      return null;
-    } else {
-      // check if namespace is correct
-      if (nameSpace.equals(slNameSpace)) {
-        return slPrefix;
-      } else {
-        MessageProvider msg = MessageProvider.getInstance();
-        String message = msg.getMessage("xpath.00", new Object[] { "Ungültiger SecurityLayer Namespace: \"" + nameSpace + "\"."});
-        throw new XPathException(message, null);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-}