Kostis Anagnostopoulos wrote: > On 4/17/06, Jeff Genender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dev looks good. Get confirmation from Carlos and Brett on the JAXB jars. >> Mine were originally javax.xml. But Carlos moved them to com.sun.xml...which >> made sense since that seems to be the real package names. > > well, Jeff (and Carlos) > > as i hinted earlier, i believe that even if it were the package names > of all the libs involved 'com.sun.xml.*', it wouldn't made sense, > because of this: > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-coping-with-sun-jars.html > > But that is not the case. > Among the dependency libs, jaxb-api.api, jaxp-api.jar, jax-qname.jar, > namespace.jar and xalan, sax etc are all under javax.xml packages. > The rest are indeed in com.sun (but not all under com.sun.xml though!). > > So, you see the situation is not a clear-cut for using com.sun.xml groupId. > Maybe we need a more elaborate scheme for assigning groupIds, which > requires more thought and effort. > OR we can stick to the maven guidelines, and assine all libs under the > javax.xml, because it is simpler! >
No argument from me, I just listen to the gatekeepers of ibiblio ;-) Jeff
