[mylyn-dev] Removal of jdom & rome

[Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Mylyn masters,

My attention was brought recently to the fact that rome has been
revived, and that version 2.0 is going to be shipped soon (it looks like
there is only 6 more bugs planned for that release, although the date
has not been scheduled yet). However, the rome 2.0 requires jdom2, which
unfortunately is not compatible with "old" jdom - the namespace has been
changed.

As I'd like Mylyn dependencies to be up to date, I thought about further
removal of rome and jdom (partially done in 412953).

JDom itself is used in o.e.m.oslc.core, which has all classes internal,
and the OSLC spec that is parsed also doesn't seem to be very
complicated. Maybe it would be possible to remove jdom from this bundle
entirely? The main reason I'm asking about this is that I know OSLC is
important for adopters, and changing critical parts of code may have
unpredictable consequences. Yet, this part seems to be perfectly doable.

The same case with o.e.m.web.tasks. The ROME+JDOM is used to get author,
date, link, and title, so I believe this could be easily parsed using
just pure java. I'd have to dig and compare various RSS standards to
estimate what will be the code added, but I hope it will be one
implementation for Atom and one for RSS - nothing really fancy, as mylyn
doesn't seem to use advanced capabilities of either protocol.

I'm willing to work on that (although have no idea when). Thoughts?
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Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat