Re: duplicate classes (SAX problem)

[nferrier at tapsellferrier dot co dot uk]

Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 02:13, nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk wrote:
> > I'm wondering how anybody has got Tomcat or any of the other Apache
> > tools to run given that they mostly distribute the SAX classes
> > (because they all come with Xerces).
> 
> Just don't compile them in.  See the Makefiles at
> http://sources.redhat.com/rhug.
> 
> The sax classes all come with "java" as well, so it seems reasonable to
> leave them with gcj.  That's what other applications are going to
> expect.

But the JAXP classes don't come with GCJ yet and one would expect to
find them.

The ClasspathX-GNUJAXP project has implementations of the JAXP, SAX
and DOM classes as well as the API classes. In my view, we should
integrate these with the GCJ distro rather than duplicating them.


Nic