[PROPOSAL]: Removing xmlParserAPIs.jar from the binary distribution

[Michael Glavassevich]

Hello everyone,

Since Xerces-J 2.3.0, the binary distribution has included both xml-apis.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar. xml-apis.jar contains the standard APIs: SAX, DOM and JAXP. xmlParserAPIs.jar is a copy of xml-apis.jar.  They currently both exist because we wanted to give users a chance to change their environments (CLASSPATH, etc...) without abruptly removing xmlParserAPIs.jar.

We have been encouraging users to switch from the deprecated xmlParserAPIs.jar to xml-apis.jar for over a year now, so it seems like this is a good time to discontinue shipping this jar file. This would reduce the size of the binary packages and also end the confusion that some users seem to have about the difference (or lack thereof) between the two jars.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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