Thanks for that explanation Justin. I know Martin still tries to cater for Java < 1.5 but xerces is not used in any of the core classes that make up the JTS maven artifacts.
Michael On 26 October 2012 10:40, Justin Deoliveira <jdeol...@opengeo.org> wrote: > > Btw, i did this on the branch i pushed up, that is added an exclusion on the > jts dependency. I can't remember exactly what JTS uses it for but its part > of the "IO" packages which i don't think are really used anywhere by > GeoTools. I could be wrong. > > To sum up Michael, as of java 1.6 (might even be 1.5) the java runtime ships > with an internal version of xerces, so its technically not needed. But its > not exposed directly (or at least in the proprietary package com.sun). So > using it involves using a new "jaxp" / javax.xml api. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
