Re: What's missing?

[Nic Ferrier]

Brian Jones <address@hidden> writes:

> Just a note that I have looked into where to get various things in 1.4
> we don't yet have and shouldn't have to produce ourselves.  These are
> some of the big gaping holes you see in japicompat reports.
> 
> javax.sound - http://tritonus.org/
> org.ietf.jgss - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2853.txt
> org.omg - http://www.omg.org/
> org.w3c.dom - http://www.w3.org/DOM/
> org.xml.sax - http://sax.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I'd very much like to treat these as 3rd party libraries/sources.  If
> the license is not free software we may be forced to simply point
> people at the authoritative source instead of providing it ourselves.
> 
> I expect us to use Xerces as does Sun for an XML parser (unless there
> is something better with a suitable license).  The Apache license
> should not hinder this despite the advertising clause.

What about gnu jaxp? dammit - we spent a long time working on this
and licensing it in the correct way.

For goodness sake use it.


http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx


> javax.sound - Gnu LGPL, perhaps better to write these interfaces
> ourselves but point to tritonus for the native pieces

Tritonus were talking to me about making their stuff part of the
ClasspathX project. They seemed to go quiet after a while though.


> org.w3c - Good code and javadoc abounds!  But what about the
> license?

Already resolved this issue. See the gnu jaxp stuff.

 
> org.xml.sax - Public domain folks.  Import away.

Already packaged it up. See the gnu jaxp stuff.



Nic