Upcoming changes to JDK7 build process: JIBX

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/8/31 Peter Zhelezniakov <Peter.Zhelezniakov at sun.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Back in April we've introduced a new build dependency: JIBX. It was
> necessary for the Nimbus generator to work, and nobody was happy about it at
> that time.
>
> So JIBX is going away now. Nimbus generator has been rewritten using JAXB,
> which will be taken from the bootstrap JDK. ALT_JIBX_PATH will not be needed
> any more.
>
> I've just pushed the changeset.
>
> Peter Zhelezniakov wrote:
>>
>> As part of the Nimbus forwardport into JDK7, a change to the build process
>> is being made.
>>
>> Nimbus generates many of its source files automatically at build time. The
>> generator is based on a third-party project, JIBX (jibx.sourceforge.net).
>> Specifically, it needs the following 4 jar files to run:
>>        bcel.jar
>>        jibx-bind.jar
>>        jibx-run.jar
>>        xpp3.jar
>>
>> These files can be downloaded from
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69358&package_id=68290
>>
>> By default, these files are looked for in /java/devtools/share/jibx/lib or
>> J:\share\jibx\lib. You can specify another path with the ALT_JIBX_LIBS_PATH
>> variable.
>>
>> Note that this is a build-time dependency only; the jar files are not
>> copied to the resulting build.
>
> --
> Peter
>

Great news!

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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