On Dec 18, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Mandy Chung <mandy.ch...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel, > > There are currently several different FactoryFinder class in the JAXP > implementation and there might be slight difference in each of them. Do you > know if it has been looked into whether it's feasible to merge them into a > single utility class? I suspect someone might have brought this up in the > past. > You suspect right :-) Those FactoryFinder classes are package private, probably a artefact of JAXP having multiple distribution channels, and there were subtle differences between them but perhaps less so now? IMHO such unification could be considered as a later fix as i think getting the SL and CL functionality correct is a higher priority. Paul.