Re: [stellation-res] Eclipse no longer ships org.apache.xerces plugin

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rafal,

Thanks!
I will get your patch and incorporate it into a new version of the plugin.
(I'm also working on #60853) TClient feature is not visible in About 
eclipse > Feature details dialog .

Regards,
Jim

At 11:50 AM 6/8/2004, Rafal Krzewski wrote:
> Rafal Krzewski wrote:
>
> > Mark C Chu-Carroll wrote:
> >
> > > Re: Xerces. Unfortunately, Xerces is *not* part of the Java API. Sun has 
> > > defined the w3c DOM classes as part of the standard API, and requires 
> > > all JDKs and JREs the include *an* implementation of the DOM.  In the 
> > > IBM JVMs, that's Xerces; in the Sun JDKs, it's not.
> >
> > I know they've included DOM & SAX APIs, and I thought that the 
> > implementation in Sun JDKs also Xerces. I was mistaken. Anyway I don't 
> > see an obvious reason why Stellation would depend on any proprietary 
> > interfacs of Xerces. I suspect that the only thing needed to switch to 
> > platform's DOM/SAX would be doing instantiation of parsers through JAXP.
> >
> > > So, to get the client working for the interim, there are really only two 
> > > choices: switch to the generic Java DOM support, or switch to JDOM.
> >
> >
> > Platform DOM/JAXP would probably be faster. I'll take look at that
> > tomorrow.
>
> Unfortunately I wasn't able to get to it until now.
>
> There were two distinct issues:
>
> - xml serialization in DialogPropertyBag class, I was able to get 
> around  it with some basic java.xml.parsers/java.xml.transform stuff.
>
> - Base64 encoding decoding using a class from Xerces implementation. After 
> tweaking this to one side and another I ended up with copying the file 
> from platform sources to org.stellation.util. I don't know if it's 
> apropriate WRT licensing policies. If not - another suitable 
> implementation must be found.
>
> The patch is available at:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=64013
>
> Rafal
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