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Re: End of the month - where is the new snapshot?


From: Chris Burdess
Subject: Re: End of the month - where is the new snapshot?
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:18:04 +0100

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Casey Marshall wrote:
About that last point. What do people think about dropping GNU JAXP
as external library and let runtime, compiler, tool integrators
depend on the GNU JAXP upstream release? Kaffe already does that
and I think GNU JAXP is independent enough to point people at it as
external extension library.

Archie> I agree.. Classpath should avoid trying to duplicate work that
Archie> can easily be obtained (freely, of course :-) elsewhere..

Can't we instead just import javax.xml, org.w3c.dom, and org.xml.sax
into classpath, and let JAXP work on the concrete implementations of
that abstract API?

Ideally this would be logical. However, the XML APIs are prone to backwards-incompatible (ABI) changes, and this means the interfaces and the implementations are much more tightly coupled.

Additionally, once the current release of GNU JAXP is complete, I'd like to move towards JAXP 1.3, which has even more major changes. So I don't think this is quite the right time to do it. - -- Chris Burdess
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