XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>]

--- Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com> wrote:

...
> Now I remember why I always ship versions of Xerces
> and Xalan, despite
> these things being built in.
> 
> One of the things that surprises me is: why did sun
> bother to change
> Xerces, other than reparent it? If they want to fix
> things, put the
> fixes in public SVN, where people can review them,
> and not a
> GPL-licensed branch that must do nothing but field
> support calls.

As I recall, they have to 'freeze' the version they
will ship rather early on within their own release
cycle.
During testing when problems are found, they have/had
to backport specific fixes from later versions
(released between Sun choosing which version to
include and going through their QA etc cycles). And
the version frozen may not even have been the latest
official release, on assumption that it might not have
been stable enough... plenty of inertia involved, and
then last minute patches to work around biggest
problems found. ;-/

Additionally, specifically for 1.6 etc. release, there
may have been additional reasons due to Sun's Stax
parser being built on slightly modified XNI core
(modified because some functionality may not have been
exposed by the core, when sjsxp was developed), so
they may have had to support some of the tweaks.
 
-+ Tatu +-



      
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