The factory methods of StAXUtils didn't work with Java 6. PR: WSCOMMONS-127 Submitted-By: Tim Putnam, t.putnam@reading.ac.uk The method StAXUtils.reset() wasn't synchronized and the factory pool had no upper limit.
webservices/commons/trunk/modules/axiom/modules/axiom-api/src/main/java/org/apache/axiom/om/util/StAXUtils.java