Glassfish incremental deployment failes when including Selenium - maven

Question

I have a Java EE project which is meant to run on Glassfish 4.1. I want to use Selenium to collect information from some web pages, i.e. I need to include Selenium in the deployment (not just for tests).
I am using Eclipse IDE and have previously utilized the incremental deployment function in Eclipse to automatically deploy all saved changes to the project. But when I included (with Maven) the dependencies for Selenium incremental deployment stopped working. The project can still be deployed to Glassfish but I have to restart Glassfish between every change. I get the following error in Eclipse:
Exception while loading the app : java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.sun.faces.config.ConfigurationException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.sun.faces.config.ConfigurationException: Unable to parse document 'bundle://136.0:1/com/sun/faces/jsf-ri-runtime.xml': DTD factory class org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.dtd.DTDDVFactoryImpl does not extend from DTDDVFactory.. Please see server.log for more details.
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.dtd.DTDDVFactoryImpl is included with Selenium as a transitive dependency (xerces:xercesImpl:2.11.0).
Here are my Maven dependencies:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-bom</artifactId>
<version>2.44.0</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
</dependency>
I hope there is a solution to this but after reading Jens Schauder's response in Dealing with "Xerces hell" in Java/Maven? I'm afraid there might not be. Anyone?

Answer 1

I currently can't reproduce the issue with a simple project, did you make sure that you don't have any other dependencies which are importing another version of xercesImpl?
You can try to place the xercesImpl-2.11.0.jar and the transitive dependency xml-apis-1.4.01.jar in the lib folder of your Glassfish domain and exclude it from your dependencies like this:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.44.0</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
<groupId>xerces</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
See also:
org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.DVFactoryException: DTD factory class org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.dtd.DTDDVFactoryImpl does not extend from DTDDVFactory
Xerces error: org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.dtd.DTDDVFactoryImpl