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Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 6, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Mark Murphy <jmarkmur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a question. If we bring it into POI as a sub-project, do we have to > change its namespace? If it were added to Commons, would it have to change > its namespace? > > Here is my rational for restoring XMLBeans to an active project or > sub-project. > > XMLBeans is a stable project. It doesn't need much new work, but as new > Java releases occur, and as technologies change, the need to update > XMLBeans and keep it current with technology becomes apparent. In the attic > it can not get these necessary refreshes, and projects which rely on it are > forced to look elsewhere for the solution XMLBeans provides. Keeping > XMLBeans alive, not as a zombie, but as a living mature project means that > those projects that depend on it can continue productively depending on > XMLBeans as technology advances. The POI project is willing to look after > XMLBeans since we see the benefit of maintaining it vs. dropping it for > some other yet to be determined XML solution, both to our own project and > to others. > > After looking over at Commons, it almost looks like that is the appropriate > place to put it as long as we can do so without changing the namespace. > >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 4:04 PM, pj.fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> My attempt at a short description of why we want to be able to patch >> xmlbeans. >> >> Apache Poi has a significant dependency on XmlBeans. There would need to be >> a lot of work done to switch to an alternative (and this might happen at a >> later date). We have identified a few issues in XmlBeans that we would like >> to be fix and would like to be able to fix other high priority issues that >> might be reported in future. >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/POI-Dev-f2312866.html >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org