Hi Luis > On 25 Jun 2015, at 16:39, Luis Bernardo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know why we have the xercesImpl jar in the lib directory? > Apparently we don't need it to compile and run the unit tests. This is unlike > xalan which we need for the unit tests.
Good question... I am not 100% certain, but I think this was done mostly for reasons of convenience of the end users. Recall that, in the past, way back in the dark ages, there was a time when an XML parser was not yet a standard part of most JRE and JDK bundles. Just in case you were running FOP on an older JVM which did not come with its own parser, FOP bundled its own. Something like that? If anyone knows this to be wrong, feel free to correct. > > Can this jar be removed? > I would say so, yes, unless the policy is to keep it for the sake of supporting old JVMs (1.3 and earlier?). KR Andreas
