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Bug 22270

Summary:	Cannot use javax.xml.parsers APIs in jdk1.4
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Konrad Kolosowski <konradk>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	21386

Description Konrad Kolosowski

2002-08-08 13:05:16 EDT

At the moment many plugins use Xerces implementation classes instead of APIs.
They use code
	org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser parser = new 
org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser ();
instead of
	javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory 
factory=javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
	javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();

But switching to use APIs causes Crimson implementation to be loaded as instead 
of Xerces.  This occurs when using jdk1.4 that ships with APIs that are 
duplicate of ones in the xerces plugin.

Comment 1 Konrad Kolosowski

2003-10-14 17:04:12 EDT

With Eclipse 3.0 requiring JDK1.4 a plugged in parser can be assumed and there 
is no need to use Xerces directly whether using implementation or Xerces 
APIs.  JAXP APISs can be used and problem disappears in Eclipse 3.0.