Tika XML Beans version dependency

[Terence Kent <tk...@xetus.com>]

Hello,

We are currently using Tika 1.0 with XMLBeans 2.3 and we would like to upgrade our version of XMLBeans to 2.4. I don't see anything explicitly saying that XMLBeans version 2.3 is required for Tika 1.0, just a few references to it in the change lists. Is it possible to use XMLBeans 2.4 with Tika 1.0, or is this an unsupported configuration?

Thanks!
Terence

Re: Tika XML Beans version dependency

[Nick Burch <ni...@alfresco.com>]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Terence Kent wrote:
> We are currently using Tika 1.0 with XMLBeans 2.3 and we would like to 
> upgrade our version of XMLBeans to 2.4. I don't see anything explicitly 
> saying that XMLBeans version 2.3 is required for Tika 1.0, just a few 
> references to it in the change lists. Is it possible to use XMLBeans 2.4 
> with Tika 1.0, or is this an unsupported configuration?

XMLBeans runtimes are backwards compatible, so for POI we compile with the 
oldest version that supports all we need (2.3). This means that you can 
run it on 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 depending on what else you need for the rest of 
your application. So, upgrading the runtime to a newer version should be 
fine.

(If we compiled the schemas with 2.5, then you wouldn't be able to use 
them on 2.3 or 2.4, and we don't want to force people to upgrade if 
they're already using and have QA'd a setup with an older runtime)

Nick

Re: Tika XML Beans version dependency

[Terence Kent <tk...@xetus.com>]

Jukka,

Thanks for the info. Looking over the POI docs, there are no clear version requirements there either so we'll give xml-beans 2.5 a shot. 

In case anybody else has this question later, I'll check back in and let you know what I find.

Terence

On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Terence Kent <tk...@xetus.com> wrote:
>> We are currently using Tika 1.0 with XMLBeans 2.3 and we would like to
>> upgrade our version of XMLBeans to 2.4. I don't see anything explicitly
>> saying that XMLBeans version 2.3 is required for Tika 1.0, just a few
>> references to it in the change lists. Is it possible to use XMLBeans 2.4
>> with Tika 1.0, or is this an unsupported configuration?
> 
> We don't (and practically can't) test Tika with all combinations of
> possible dependency versions, so the only ones we can honestly claim
> as supported are the ones explicitly listed in
> http://tika.apache.org/1.0/gettingstarted.html.
> 
> Tika needs XMLBeans as a transitive dependency through POI, so people
> more familiar with POI or XMLBeans can probably tell best how much the
> library has changed between 2.3 and 2.4 and whether such an upgrade is
> likely to cause trouble for POI.
> 
> Or you can just try upgrading the dependency and see if it works. :-)
> 
> BR,
> 
> Jukka Zitting

Re: Tika XML Beans version dependency

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Terence Kent <tk...@xetus.com> wrote:
> We are currently using Tika 1.0 with XMLBeans 2.3 and we would like to
> upgrade our version of XMLBeans to 2.4. I don't see anything explicitly
> saying that XMLBeans version 2.3 is required for Tika 1.0, just a few
> references to it in the change lists. Is it possible to use XMLBeans 2.4
> with Tika 1.0, or is this an unsupported configuration?

We don't (and practically can't) test Tika with all combinations of
possible dependency versions, so the only ones we can honestly claim
as supported are the ones explicitly listed in
http://tika.apache.org/1.0/gettingstarted.html.

Tika needs XMLBeans as a transitive dependency through POI, so people
more familiar with POI or XMLBeans can probably tell best how much the
library has changed between 2.3 and 2.4 and whether such an upgrade is
likely to cause trouble for POI.

Or you can just try upgrading the dependency and see if it works. :-)

BR,

Jukka Zitting