[Jprojecttimer-developers] Switch to new library versions?

[Christian G. [M. Mitch] <mi...@mi...>]

Hi!

What about switching to the newest library versions?

We currently use JDOM 1.0 Beta 7 -- current version is Beta 8.
http://www.jdom.org describes this release as "with many speed
optimizations and functionality improvements!".

I think we should just switch to the current version -- if it's ok,
I'll just start and do it (should be just checking in the current .jar
file).


We also use Xerces 1.2.0.  Xerces 1 is listed as a `hibernated'
project[3] -- current version is 1.4.4 [1].  Xerces 2 is in active
development -- version 2.2.1 is current [2].

I don't know to which version we should switch.  On [2] it says:

| Xerces2 is a nearly complete rewrite of the Xerces 1.x codebase in
| order to make the code cleaner, more modular, and easier to
| maintain. It includes a completely redesigned and rewritten XML
| Schema validation engine. Applications using only the standard
| interfaces such as JAXP, DOM, and SAX should not see any
| differences.

So perhaps we should just look which version is the smallest size and
take that one -- I don't see other differences that would concern us.

Again, I'd do the necessary changes to include the chosen library into
the project.


Regards,
Christian

[1] http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html
[2] http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/index.html
[3] http://xml.apache.org/
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