I have a question. If we bring it into POI as a sub-project, do we have to change its namespace? If it were added to Commons, would it have to change its namespace?
Here is my rational for restoring XMLBeans to an active project or sub-project. XMLBeans is a stable project. It doesn't need much new work, but as new Java releases occur, and as technologies change, the need to update XMLBeans and keep it current with technology becomes apparent. In the attic it can not get these necessary refreshes, and projects which rely on it are forced to look elsewhere for the solution XMLBeans provides. Keeping XMLBeans alive, not as a zombie, but as a living mature project means that those projects that depend on it can continue productively depending on XMLBeans as technology advances. The POI project is willing to look after XMLBeans since we see the benefit of maintaining it vs. dropping it for some other yet to be determined XML solution, both to our own project and to others. After looking over at Commons, it almost looks like that is the appropriate place to put it as long as we can do so without changing the namespace. On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 4:04 PM, pj.fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My attempt at a short description of why we want to be able to patch > xmlbeans. > > Apache Poi has a significant dependency on XmlBeans. There would need to be > a lot of work done to switch to an alternative (and this might happen at a > later date). We have identified a few issues in XmlBeans that we would like > to be fix and would like to be able to fix other high priority issues that > might be reported in future. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/POI-Dev-f2312866.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > >
