JAXP JEP: Update Xerces implementation in the JDK

[Martijn Verburg]

Makes sense - thanks for the extra explanation!

Cheers,
Martijn


On 3 February 2014 22:49, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 03/02/2014 21:13, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>
>> Hi Huizhe,
>>
>> Is there a possibility to look at having a more loosely coupled
>> relationship between Xerces and what is core JDK? I'm thinking about (in
>> combination with) Jigsaw that you could allow the Xerces components to be
>> kept up to date more often (assuming API compatibility etc is retained).
>>
>>  Just to mention that are already service provider interfaces so you can
> deploy with other parser libraries (or a more up to date Xerces). One of
> things that we did as part of preparing for modules (JEP 162, JDK 8) was to
> rev the JAXP API to clean up these the service provider interfaces (for
> SAX, DOM, XSLT, XPath, Validation, Streaming, Datatype) and specify the use
> of the ServiceLoader. So we're in a much better place now.
>
> As regards getting the Xerces code in OpenJDK in sync with the upstream
> project then that clearly would be desirable and probably more of a longer
> term goal. I'll let Joe speak to how much the code has diverged but one
> area of difference is that the original Apache code wasn't really intended
> to ever be on the boot class path or run with a security manager. In any
> case, I think this JEP is a good step as it brings the implementations
> closer and also revs the support on a number of standards.
>
> -Alan
>