| please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0 | please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0 2006-12-22 - By Steve Loughran
Jacob Kjome wrote:
> >>> Incidentally, does xerces now depend on this serializer.jar? That is,
> >>> does it need to be included in the distro? Or are its classes merged
> >>> into xerces and xalan? These are the kind of thing we need to
> understand
> >>> before we ship
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, there's no dependency in Xerces. It's loaded via reflection by
> >Xerces. But
> >> they have deprecated their native serializer classes in favor of the
> >shared one
> >> provided by the Xalan team. If serializer.jar is in the path, it
> >will be used.
> >> If not, the deprecated Xerces native serialization will be used
> >(assuming one
> >> isn't directly referencing the Xerces native serializer API rather than
> >> properly using the interfaces, such as JAXP or DOM3LS). I'm not
> clear on
> >> whether the same will be true for the next Xalan release (2.7.1, I
> >think [1])?
> >> They may actually depend directly on serializer.jar (or maybe they'll
> >> incorporate it within xalan.jar?). I guess we'll find out when they
> make the
> >> release official.
> >>
> >> Jake
> >>
> >> [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xalan/java/tags/xalan-j_2_7_1/
> >
> >OK. So we ought to hold off to see what xalan does. if they build it in,
> >it should be the only copy on the classpath to avoid version problems
> >
>
> Makes sense. Just to be clear, are you saying that you would include
> serializer.jar in Ant's lib directory if Xalan doesn't ship with it
> included in their jar, but not include serializer.jar in Ant's lib
> directory if Xalan does include it in their jar, even though Ant doesn't
> ship Xalan? Hmm... I might alert the Xalan team to this. I suspect
> this might more than just an Ant-specific concern. I'll report back
> with any information I find.
>
>
Ah. Ant1.7 has an xml file, fetch.xml, that can pull down extra
artifacts from the maven 2 repository. Unless the xalan dependency asks
for serializer.jar, then we'd have to modify that file to pull it down.
We could also bundle it with xerces if that would help ant :)
-steve
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