Re: [orbit-dev] Another exception to normal naming scheme: org.apache.xe

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi David,
what's preventing a split into three different distributions? In my 
opinion, naming it org.apache.xerces adds to the confusion since the 
affected API's are now part of the standard and included in the JRE (I 
think starting with 1.4).

Just out of curiosity, who needs these interfaces separately today?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

David M Williams wrote:
> Fellow orbiteers,
>
> I would like to get your review and confirmation that the name I've 
> come up with for "xml-apis.jar" is now acceptable.
>
> To refresh your memory, this jar, currently named org.w3c.dom, 
> distributed by Xerces is actually a combination of three popular xml 
> releated standard interfaces,
> javax.xml , org.w3c.dom, and org.sax. Hence, any package-based name we 
> picked would be a bit confusing. Second, there might
> eventually be specific bundles for each of these three standard 
> interfaces, so we wanted to "leave room" for those.
>
> At first, I tried just lterally the name of the jar, such as xml.apis, 
> but, that seemed a bit  too short and not really using a unique 
> namespace,
> so, I thought to add org.apache.xerces, which I think is good, since 
> it makes it more obvous that it "comes from" the xerces distribution.
>
> My thought would be to leave both of them in place for a few weeks, 
> after announcing to cross-project and then removing the
> old org.w3c.dom.
>
> Sound ok?
>
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