NABBLE Re: publishing poi xmlbeans jars

[Dave Fisher <da...@comcast.net>]

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> On Mar 6, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Mark Murphy <jm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a question. If we bring it into POI as a sub-project, do we have to
> change its namespace? If it were added to Commons, would it have to change
> its namespace?
> 
> Here is my rational for restoring XMLBeans to an active project or
> sub-project.
> 
> XMLBeans is a stable project. It doesn't need much new work, but as new
> Java releases occur, and as technologies change, the need to update
> XMLBeans and keep it current with technology becomes apparent. In the attic
> it can not get these necessary refreshes, and projects which rely on it are
> forced to look elsewhere for the solution XMLBeans provides. Keeping
> XMLBeans alive, not as a zombie, but as a living mature project means that
> those projects that depend on it can continue productively depending on
> XMLBeans as technology advances. The POI project is willing to look after
> XMLBeans since we see the benefit of maintaining it vs. dropping it for
> some other yet to be determined XML solution, both to our own project and
> to others.
> 
> After looking over at Commons, it almost looks like that is the appropriate
> place to put it as long as we can do so without changing the namespace.
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 4:04 PM, pj.fanning <fa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> My attempt at a short description of why we want to be able to patch
>> xmlbeans.
>> 
>> Apache Poi has a significant dependency on XmlBeans. There would need to be
>> a lot of work done to switch to an alternative (and this might happen at a
>> later date). We have identified a few issues in XmlBeans that we would like
>> to be fix and would like to be able to fix other high priority issues that
>> might be reported in future.
>> 
>> 
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