Re: JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

2014-02-03 Thread huizhe wang
Thanks Martijn, Mario and Sean for the comments and Alan for the explanation. The Xerces implementation has forked mainly in the following areas: 1. integration The JDK StAX implementation shared the same scanner with that of SAX/DOM parsers. This part of code has been significantly modifi

Re: JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

2014-02-03 Thread Sean Mullan
On 02/03/2014 02:19 PM, huizhe wang wrote: The JDK contains an older Xerces implementation, version 2.7.1. Although there were updates in JDK 7 to bring in some changes, we did not bring it completely up to date to any later release. The goal of this JEP is to complete the update and bring the

Re: JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

2014-02-03 Thread Martijn Verburg
Makes sense - thanks for the extra explanation! Cheers, Martijn On 3 February 2014 22:49, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 03/02/2014 21:13, Martijn Verburg wrote: > >> Hi Huizhe, >> >> Is there a possibility to look at having a more loosely coupled >> relationship between Xerces and what is core JDK?

Re: JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

2014-02-03 Thread Mario Torre
Il 03/feb/2014 22:50 "Alan Bateman" ha scritto: > In any case, I think this JEP is a good step as it brings the implementations closer and also revs the support on a number of standards. Indeed! Mario

Re: JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

2014-02-03 Thread Alan Bateman
On 03/02/2014 21:13, Martijn Verburg wrote: Hi Huizhe, Is there a possibility to look at having a more loosely coupled relationship between Xerces and what is core JDK? I'm thinking about (in combination with) Jigsaw that you could allow the Xerces components to be kept up to date more often (as

Re: JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

2014-02-03 Thread Mario Torre
Yes, And it would be even nicer if we could get some of the patches integrated upstream so that it could be eventually possible to not maintaining this code, but instead use upstream bundles directly. Not sure how this could be done, but would be awesome. Cheers, Mario Il 03/feb/2014 22:14 "Mart

Re: JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

2014-02-03 Thread Martijn Verburg
Hi Huizhe, Is there a possibility to look at having a more loosely coupled relationship between Xerces and what is core JDK? I'm thinking about (in combination with) Jigsaw that you could allow the Xerces components to be kept up to date more often (assuming API compatibility etc is retained). Ch