rubys@us.ibm.com wrote:
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> Rajiv Mordani wrote:
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> > Now that we have JAXP out why not have ant use that. Then people can use
> > whichever parser they want.. I am willing to do that.. Pier has already
> > implemented it for xerces...
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> >From http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/xml/readme.html:
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> Please read the License Agreement that applies to this software.
> Commercial use of this software is currently not permitted. The APIs are
> experimental and subject to change.
Yes that is EA1. The new release with a MUCH more relaxed license will be
out **real** soon.. Wait for a couple of days..
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> The problem with ProjectX is that it isn't open source. Replacing it with
> something else that isn't open source (even if it allows us to plug in
> other open source projects) doesn't solve the problem.
Well I know what Pier will say at this point if I say it is supposed to be
donated to apache so I will not mention that again but that isn't in my
hands Pier...
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> What I would suggest is that we replace xml.jar with one based on a
> suitable subset of xerces.jar. At the same time we replace the logic in
> org.apache.tools.ant.Parser which currently looks for a properties file to
> attempt to dynamically load JAXP. If that is not found, we default to
> xerces.
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> At the moment, Tomcat depends on the same xml.jar, so these changes need to
> be coordinated across the two projects.
Well I have the changes for Ant to use JAXP.. Will be looking into tomcat and
then we should be fine to replace the xml.jar with jaxp.
- Rajiv
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> - Sam Ruby
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