Seeking Assurance That Patching gradle-api-6.{...}.jar Is At Least Technically Possible - Somehow

[Dawid Weiss]

Hi Alan,

> I took a quite look at xml-apis-1.4.01.jar and it looks like a copy of
> the XML API classes (not the implementation) from a very old JDK or JAXP
> release. The class files v45.3 = JDK 1.0.2 :-)

Just FYI: the latest Apache Xerces release (that's June, 2018) still
depends on this jar...

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/xerces/xercesImpl/2.12.0/xercesImpl-2.12.0.pom

Dawid