Solution

Add the following system property to your domain.xml file:

<jvm-options>-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xerces. \
internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl</jvm-options>

Alternatively, remove the JAR file containing the org.apache.xerces package form your Web application's WEB-INF/lib.