On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Mike Edwards <mike.edwards.inglen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/12/2010 13:27, ant elder wrote: >> >> Ok so all those version updates are in now so how are we for doing a >> release? Would be nice to do some more samples work but its no worse >> than beta1 as it is now. It would be good to get a release out this >> year, but with the Christmas break coming up we'd have to do it quite >> soon to do that, so if we took a branch early next week to get it done >> that week would that work? >> >> ...ant >> > Folks, > > One thing I'd be keen on seeing for this release is a cleanup of > dependencies. > > There are a number of cases where we have dependencies on modules where that > function is actually now in the base JDK 1.6 - and there are some problems > occurring with clashes between code in the JDK and these other modules. > > Two examples are: > > com.sun.xml.jaxb-impl > > javax.xml.ws.jaxws-api > > > --- these are stated as dependencies in a number of modules but all the > classes are also there in the base JDK 1.6. The dependencies should be > removed in my opinion, and the base JDK code should be used in all cases. > > > > Yours, Mike. > >
It would be good to clean up the dependencies, i'll have a go at doing some but its quite a big job to get all done quickly without others helping. ...ant
