Hi Gary, Elliotte & others, Thanks for your thoughts. IMHO, I do still stick to my earlier opinion, that Xerces-J should not be releasing its builds on Maven central.
According to me, the truth is that, the current day JDK contains lot many Java classes derived from erstwhile Xerces builds (& also Xalan as well :)). It usually confuses users who prefer JDK contained (Xerces-J derived) XML libraries, when they see same/enhanced Java components released by the Apache Xerces XML project. I think that, it would be better, if such users get a choice to configure their local Java environments manually, by installing Xerces-J from Apache. I'm willing to revise my opinion, about this topic, if there's any related opinion from Xerces committer(s)/PMC member(s). On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 7:54 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not releasing on Maven central only creates an impediment to pick up the > jar files. I really don't think we should make it harder for users. > > Gary > -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi