Index: extras/upgrade/upgrade-jar/src/main/java/com/sun/enterprise/tools/upgrade/common/UpgradeUtils.java
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--- extras/upgrade/upgrade-jar/src/main/java/com/sun/enterprise/tools/upgrade/common/UpgradeUtils.java	(revision 45380)
+++ extras/upgrade/upgrade-jar/src/main/java/com/sun/enterprise/tools/upgrade/common/UpgradeUtils.java	(working copy)
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 // todo: fix formatting in separate commit
 public class UpgradeUtils {
@@ -135,7 +138,9 @@
 	 * job of the upgrade code in the application server. We're only
 	 * interested in the version information here, and if that is
 	 * somehow wrong then the upgrade process will fail downstream
-	 * as the document is parsed into serverbeans objects.
+	 * as the document is parsed into serverbeans objects. Since
+	 * we don't need to validate the document, we set our own
+	 * entity resolver to avoid the DTD lookup.
 	 */
     public Document getDomainDocumentElement(String domainFileName) {
         DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
@@ -143,6 +148,13 @@
         Document resultDoc = null;
         try {
             DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
+            builder.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver() {
+                @Override
+                public InputSource resolveEntity(String s, String s1)
+                    throws SAXException, IOException {
+                    return new InputSource(new StringReader(""));
+                }
+            });
             resultDoc = builder.parse(new File(domainFileName));
         } catch (Exception ex) {
             logger.log(Level.WARNING,