On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, D. Jay Newman wrote:
> Might I suggest that one of the files be named jaxp_parser.jar? Having two
> jars with the same name *is* confusing, even though I understand why they
> were split up.
>
IMHO, that advice would need to go back to the folks who created JAXP. It
would be even *more* confusing if we arbitrarily changed the name of a JAR
file in the Tomcat release :-).
By the way, just to add to the strangeness of JAR file names:
* Tomcat 4 uses JAXP/1.1 by default, so the parser name is actually
"crimson.jar" instead of "parser.jar". But "jaxp.jar" is still
separate (because it's just the API classes, not the implementation).
* You can use Xerces instead of JAXP if you want, but to do that you
need to remove both "jaxp.jar" and "crimson.jar" and replace them
with "xerces.jar" that has the javax.xml APIs built in. Why?
I dunno .. you'd have to ask the xerces team.
Craig
