On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Daniel Kulp wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 9:44:12 pm Ivan wrote: >> Hi, >> Just trying the latest Geronimo 3.0 build, get a CNF exception for the >> XMLInputFactory, seems that wstx-asl shipped is not a bundle. >> I am thinking that since JRE 1.6 contains the API and the default >> implementation, do we still need to ship another one ? > > Well, I would say get rid of stax-api, but keep wstx. I think the 4.x > versions of woodstox are bundles. If not, ServiceMix has bundles for them. > > The parser in the JDK sucks from a performance standpoint. We recently > tried > to use the JDK parser in CXF and the complete test run took nearly 25% > longer. > Adding woodstox back in brought it right back down to the normal times. > Testing on "real" web services backed that up. > > Basically, the in JDK Stax parser will work, but woodstox is so much faster. > If you aren't doing anything performance critical with XML, not using > woodstox > might be OK. >
I'd prefer to use our spec api jar although I won't insist on it. We should be using the servicemix woodstox bundle already -- if wstx-asl is still getting pulled in we need to find out how and add a maven exclusion for it. If v4 is out an already a bundle, even better :-) thanks david jencks > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org > http://dankulp.com/blog