I'm waiting to see the release of Xerces-J 2.12.0 out. Let's try to give it to the community.
On 6 June 2017 at 11:57, <cmarch...@oxiane.com> wrote: > +1 > Christophe > > > Le 2017-06-06 01:40, Gary Gregory a écrit : > >> Java 9 won't even compile for Java 5 (which is EOL and not under >> support from Oracle, not sure about IBM). I think dropping Java 1.3 is >> perfectly OK. >> >> Gary >> >> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Jan Tosovsky <j.tosov...@email.cz> >> wrote: >> >> On 2017-04-20 Mukul Gandhi wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Xerces-J 2.12.0 would comprise of two Xerces-J releases: >>>> >>>> One release will be from the trunk ... and its XML Schema >>>> >>> component >>> >>>> will be at 1.0 level. This release would run on JDK 1.3 min. >>>> >>>> Another release ... will provide support for XML Schema 1.1. >>>> This release would run on JDK 1.4 min. >>>> >>> >>> It sounds like artificial splitting just to keep support for Java >>> 1.3... >>> >>> From end-user point of view I would be confused when browsing maven >>> repository. I would have to find some documentation and investigate >>> the >>> purpose of each version... >>> >>> Java 1.3? In my POV the support for EOLed versions of (any) software >>> is >>> beneficial only for attackers as they have easier way to compromise >>> the >>> target system. >>> >>> Switching to more recent Java version could help in fixing issues >>> like this: >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1598 [1] >>> >>> Jan >>> >> > > -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
