Shooting in the dark

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

I've made some committed changes to some long failing projects.  I'm 
not set up to actually test the changes, basically take a shot in the 
dark and check the next morning if I hit anything.

ant-contrib-tests started failing around 8 Dec on the AntServerTest 
with a broken pipe IOException.  I believe it was attempting to open up 
a socket on localhost.  My guess was there was some change to the Gump 
machine that blocked those sockets.  I'm an admin of that project, but 
wasn't aware that I had commit rights on the gump descriptors at the 
time, so I addressed it by removing those tests from the ant target run 
by Gump.

log4j-tests was down for a while since it had a dependency on 
jetty-plus.  The jetty-plus dependency was removed.  In a intervening 
change, it was renamed logging-log4j-tests.

jetty-plus was down since it implemented a log4j interface 
(RepositorySelector) that had a breaking change since log4j 1.2.  In 
the follow up discussion on the log4j-dev mailing list, it was 
confirmed that the change was intended to break apps that had 
implemented the previous interface and that the mortbay jetty effort 
had moved into Apache.  I've changed the jetty-plus descriptor to build 
against logging-log4j-12, but  that hasn't run yet.

logging-log4j went down due to a change in its build file where 
log4j-chainsaw.jar (log monitoring application) was no longer built 
during by the "jar" target.  That was fixed in the log4j project but it 
was agreed that it would be a good thing to spin off the chainsaw app 
as logging-log4j-chainsaw.  logging-log4j-tests failed last night, but 
the newly added tests have been backed out of the Gump build.

domts-dom3 started failing in early December but took a vacation while 
Xalan was broken.  The problem appears to be that DOM Level 2 
definitions (likely provided by xml-common's xml-apis) are hiding the 
DOM Level 3 definitions during compilation.  I've removed the xml-apis 
and xerces dependencies to see what happens.


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