Using: JDK 1.5.0_17 (was using 1.5.0_9) xalan 2.7.0 Long story short - I want to use xml-apis.jar to get around a defect still present in JDK 1.5.0_17. However, the last release of xml-apis.jar has a classloader versus systemclassloader defect that was resolved in JDK 1.5.0_11.
JDK bug entry: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6354969 XML Commons bug entry: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41931 Bug 41931 was fixed in xml-apis.jar over 2 years ago. However, it seems that the last release of xml-apis.jar was 11/2006. In order to get a version of xml-apis.jar that includes a fix of bug 41931 should I just grab the v1.3.04 tag out of SVN and patch it with the fix for bug 41931? Or should I just grab a more recent release of the reference implementation from https://jaxp.dev.java.net/? Although I am not a stranger to building from source, a 2+ year lag from the last release seems to indicate that this project is "dormant". Best regards, Carlos ==== JDK defect I am trying to resolve: XPathFactory.newFactory assumes wrong format for META-INF/services entry - http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6202043 Although the bug was fixed some time ago, the bug details suggest that it was only applied to JDK 6.
