Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Edwin Goei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The JAXP RI (Reference Implementation) is open sourced much like the > > way the servlet RI is so the most up-to-date source code is at > > apache. > > Does that include the javax.xml classes itself?
That's a good question. I believe upper management has lots of other things to worry about so this issue gets very low priority. These classes are like the servlet API. No one would benefit from keeping the source code private because it would cause multiple implementations of the same APIs and the inevitable incompatibilities because of differences between implementations, not to mention unnecessary duplication of work. The reason for developing JAXP was to make it easier to use XML and Java together and thus promote the use of Java instead of creating a product that other companies would license. > > >> Conor suggested, that we don't talk about the reference > >> implementation of JAXP at all in our distribution, but state that > >> we'd include Apache Crimson 1.1.1 and the jaxp.jar contained in > >> Crimson's distribution - that way we'd push licensing problems (if > >> any) to the Crimson distribution only. > > > > Sure, good idea. > > So lets follow that path, let's take whatever is the latest released > version of crimson and the jaxp.jar that is included in this crimson's > distribution. Actually, Costin requested the latest JAXP crimson code for Tomcat so I will be creating a new distribution. I'd recommend using that version of crimson. -Edwin
