RFR: 8319457: Update jpackage to support WiX Toolset 4 on Windows

[Alexander Matveev]

On Mon, 20 May 2024 21:14:09 GMT, Alexey Semenyuk <asemenyuk at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Add support for WiX4 in jpackage.
> 
> jpackage supports both WiX3 and WiX4. It will pick WiX4 if both versions are installed.
> 
> Custom WiX3 sources will be automatically converted to WiX4 format if WiX4 is used. The converter provides:
> 
> - full support of the conversion of WiX L10N (.wxl) files, i.e. full support of "http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization" to "http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxl" namespace conversion;
> - partial support of WiX source (.wxs) files, i.e. partial support of "http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" to "http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs" namespace conversion;
> 
> The converter is a XSLT stylesheet. The default converter is `src/jdk.jpackage/windows/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/resources/wix3-to-wix4-conv.xsl`. It can be replaced with the custom converter by adding "wix-conv.xsl" file to the resource directory.

WiX Toolset 5 is also available. Is there plan to add support for WiX 5?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19318#issuecomment-2146391220