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Uwe Schindler edited comment on TIKA-1675 at 7/7/15 10:53 PM:
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There was already an issue/discussion open on POI mailing lists and issue
tracker to no longer use xmlbeans & Co, because since Java 6 the JAXB interface
is a public API that allows to map XML documents to Java Beans
(https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222) - which is exactly the same as xmlbeans
is dooing. Unfortunately this is a larger approach to change the API to do use
the standards Java API (and might also bring more performance). This would
remove a lot of unneeded XML-based stuff from POI for Microsoft Office 2007+
file formats.
-1 to absorb the buggy xmlbeans (this lib was also the problem of the major
Solr/Lucene security issue last year)
+1 to adopt JAXB instead of xmlbeans
was (Author: thetaphi):
There was already an issue/discussion open on POI mailing lists and issue
tracker to no longer use xmlbeans & Co, because since Java 6 the JAXB interface
is a public API that allows to map XML documents to Java Beans - which is
exactly the same as xmlbeans is dooing. Unfortunately this is a larger approach
to change the API to do use the standards Java API (and might also bring more
performance). This would remove a lot of unneeded XML-based stuff from POI for
Microsoft Office 2007+ file formats.
-1 to absorb the buggy xmlbeans (this lib was also the problem of the major
Solr/Lucene security issue last year)
+1 to adopt JAXB instead of xmlbeans
> please avoid xmlbeans dependency
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>
> Key: TIKA-1675
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1675
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Muir
>
> This dependency (e.g jar file) is fundamentally broken... XMLBEANS-499
> Is there an alternative that could be used?
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