Hi all, I've a bit of a further suggestion, that its probably not appropriate to release future Xerces-J binaries on Maven central [1], but to be released only on the xerces.apache.org site.
The reasoning for this [1] could be that, the JDK itself has numerous Xerces-J derived Java classes (albeit, they're prefixed with com.sun.*). Since we're maintaining Java components that JDK itself uses, its better not to release on Maven central. Yes, but supporting a higher JDK version (1.7/1.8 to start with) at our build time, is definitely needed I believe. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi