2017-11-30 16:51 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Boynes <jer...@boynes.com>:
>> On Nov 30, 2017, at 3:14 AM, Matthew Broadhead 
>> <matthew.broadh...@nbmlaw.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> has anything been decided?  if i try to redeploy a context in production all 
>> my xslt processors blow up.  there should be a solution that fits all?
>
> Taglibs (both Apache and Glassfish) has always had a dependency on Xalan. My 
> understanding is that TomEE did not include it and so broke users that use 
> the XML tags. If so, TomEE should fix that.

Sadly this is not a bug on tomee but the best solution we went through
after having delivered xalan for some releases. Xalan dependency
breaks 80% of apps so no way to include it - and this is the issue of
Matthew. Note it also affects simple apps in tomcat including taglib
and other libs.

>
> You can probably add Xalan to your TomEE installation somehow to work around 
> it but how to do that is really a question for the TomEE users list.
>
> A patch for Taglibs that removes the Xalan dependency and doesn't regress the 
> #27717 performance fix would be great. A patch that removed the dependency 
> but regressed performance would have to be evaluated at the time. The 
> previous decision was not to do that.
>

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