[cross-project-issues-dev] One more late breaking change: planning to re

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This bundle, org.w3c.dom consists of
interfaces from three standards, org.w3c.dom, javax.xml, and org.sax.xml,
and come from the org.apache.xerces implementation of 
those interfaces. Collectively, they
are all part of JAXP 1.3 and the Xerces version is compatible with the
JRE versions, but does have a few small differences. 

This was put in Orbit as a separate
bundle since Xerces ships the implementation in one jar, and these interfaces
in another jar (xml-apis.jar). But, the current org.w3c.dom bundle is not
quite right. 
Some have requested the three families
of interfaces be separated out into three separate bundles, and if we do
that, then anyone who starts to use the org.w3c.dom bundle would be broken
in the future. And, we can't do that.  The current version is not
very useful, either, since it doesn't export version numbers for its packages.


While it was hoped to get all this sorted
out for this release, I just haven't had time, and it's not a "stop
ship" sort of requirement. 

So, I'd like to put that xml-apis.jar
back in the xerces bundle (and still export those interfaces from there,
as is currently true). 

What's it matter to you? Not much, unless
you currently "require bundle" org.w3c.dom. If you do, you'll
have to change to use "require bundle" org.apache.xerces, if
you really need it. 

There's only two cases in Europa that
I can find (outside of WTP) that use org.w3c.dom and that's in DTP, 

org.eclipse.datatools.enablement.oda.ws
org.eclipse.datatools.enablement.oda.ws.ui

Since these two bundles import wsdl4j,
I suspect they were following our WTP model (advise?) which has turned
out to not be needed at all. So, 
hopefully you can just remove org.w3c.dom.
At worst, you'd have to change to org.apache.xerces. 
See bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=189716

So, unless anyone has a good reason
not too, I'll remove this bundle from Orbit, and simply make it part of
the xerces bundle. This basically puts us right back to the way we've done
things in previous releases ... we'll re-evaluate next release if more
is needed.

Feel free to ask questions or let us
know if this impacts you. 

Thanks,