Kevin Burton wrote:
>
> Ug.
>
> Checked over the archives and didn't see this
>
> Why are we using JAXP and ProjectX which are both Closed Source
> and proprietary to SUN Microsystems. This is a Bad Thing. We
> already have an awesome XML parser and I would say just *drop*
> the abstraction... not worth the loss of Freedom :(.
>
> This came up because I am having problems with ProjectX..
As pointed out by others, all current releases of Tomcat will build and run
just fine with Xerces. The release manager for Tomcat chooses to include
JAXP into the prepackaged binaries primarily due to size considerations.
At the moment, the only Apache project I know of that hardcodes references
to Crimson is xml-batik.
Contrary to what others may say, JAXP1.1 is not completely open source.
The Crimson and Xalan components are, but curiously the JAXP interfaces
themselves are proprietary. Xerces has a version of these interfaces, but
this is only because it got special dispensation to do so. This still
needs to be fixed.
IMHO parser plugability IS A GOOD THING.
- Sam Ruby
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