RFR (JAXP) 8029955 : AIOB in XMLEntityScanner.scanLiteral upon parsing literals with > 100 LF chars

[Ulf Zibis]

On 18.12.2013 06:18, huizhe wang wrote:
>> Why didn't you like this very short version? :
>
> JAXP currently maintains a code level 1.5 (Apache Xerces at 1.4). While we're getting close to the 
> end of JAXP standalone, we may consider newer/advanced features in JDK9.  But we'll get to that 
> discussion some time later.

Thanks for your feedback, I didn't know that and additionally I wasn't aware that Arrays.copyOf is 
so "young".

> Good catch! I'll remember to apply this cleanup in a separate or related patch, for JDK9. For the 
> current issue, I want to keep my promise to RT that this is going to be a short and low-risk 
> patch. We have a very small window for JDK8.

Reasonable!

-Ulf