I work in the Webtools Project in Eclipse, and have for years produced Xerces plugins for each release of Xerces. (Which in turn is used by other Eclipse plugins).
I'm about to do it again, but a little differently ... using an "exploded jar" in an OSGi bundle. In the simplest case, I'd just create a bundle for every jar in Xerces. This especially makes sense in the cases of xml-apis.jar and xercesImpl.jar since, by design, someone may want to use the APIs, but provide their own implementation. The other two jars are less obvious to me, resolver.jar and the "new" serializer.jar. Are these jars separate for some conceptual or distribution reason? For example, do some people use only the resolver all by itself? Or, do they "swap in" their own version of resolver.jar? Or, are they separate just due to historical and build reasons, and that conceptually, they could just be part of xercesImpl.jar? Thanks,
