At somepoint, it would be worthwhile to discuss which J2SE versions to
support.
Satheesh Bandaram wrote:
On the similar lines, I also think the XML support should turn itself
OFF gracefully in environments that don't support XML. I think the patch
requires JDK 1.4 or higher, so unless Derby has plans to end_of_line JDK
1.3 (not sure if there is a plan), it may be a good idea to turn off XML
internally. (Raise error when attempted to use)
I plan to test this part and provide comments along with a few other items.
Satheesh
+1 on getting this initial XML support into Derby. Even though the patch
has already in, I will try to review the new version sometime.
At some point the testing does need to be part of the regular derby
suite though I think the current approach is good. I need to understand
the dependency on xerces, and if the default XML parser supplied by the
VM can be used instead.
This is probably a good example of open source, get some initial working
functionality (incremental development) and then see if it can be
improved by others.
Dan.
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