[cross-project-issues-dev] And a special Orbit note for friends of Xerce

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Xerces 2.9 is now in the Orbit builds
(we had 2.8 previously). 

For those of you that actually include
it in your own features, there is actually 
something different you will have to
react to. 

Previously we shipped it in 2 pieces,
so you needed two pieces in your feature.xml files. 

Now we ship it in 4 pieces, so you'll
need to update your feature.xml files to include all 4 pieces
for this new version. 

I've explained all this, given the exact
names, versions, etc., in 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orbit/Xerces_in_Eclipse

Hopefully all goes well for you, but
we in WTP had some fits with it, and I think I've fixed everything so no
one has to change client 
code, but let me know if any thing "breaks"
(That is, don't just find a work around and move on ... we all want to
know about breaks to client code). 

In particular, does anyone need to use
Xerces with Java 1.4? I've tested 1.5, and 1.6 on three 
vendor's JRE's .. and all seemed ok
... but I did see some funny stuff on 1.4. It might have just been my tests
were not good ... or, might be 
that the bundling it is still not correct.
(And, I do want 1.4 to work ... 1.2 should work!) but I won't treat it
as urgent unless someone else 
tells me it is. 

Much thanks, questions welcome.