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Carsten Ziegeler closed FELIX-6218.
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> Replace kxml2 with standard SAX XML parser
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> Key: FELIX-6218
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-6218
> Project: Felix
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Declarative Services (SCR)
> Affects Versions: scr-2.1.16
> Reporter: Mat Booth
> Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: scr-2.1.18
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> Currently SCR requires kxml2 (and transitively xpp3) at build time and them
> embeds some classes from these two libraries in the resulting Felix SCR
> bundle. However these projects seem quite dead and have not seen any official
> activity in many years. [1]
> When I tried to investigate why Felix SCR uses kxml2, I hit a dead-end
> because the repository history does not go back far enough. SCR seems to have
> been imported already using kxml2/xpp3.
> Two possibilities spring to mind:
> * It was before Java 1.5, so there was no SAX implementation in the JDK yet
> * SCR used to target some constrained execution environment that it no
> longer supports.
> In either case, since Felix SCR now requires JavaSE-1.7 as its minimal
> execution environment I advocate switching to the SAX implementation provided
> by the JDK
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> I will post a PR
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> [1] http://www.xmlpull.org/
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