[jdom-interest] Xerxes Parser and JDOM

[Alex Rosen]

Realistically, here's really no good reason that the aboutbox/easteregg uses
XML at all, except that it's cool. And it's not really correct that jdom.jar
should favor xerces.jar over any other parser. While I'm not *always* in
favor of correct over cool, I think in this case we should go with plan A,
and make the about box just spit out the contents of a text file instead.

Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org
> [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org]On Behalf Of Jason Hunter
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:38 PM
> To: JDOM Interest
> Cc: tobias.kaempf at web.de
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Xerxes Parser and JDOM
>
>
> A couple weeks ago Tobias wrote in complaining that his applet was
> always trying to fetch xerces.jar from his server while he was using
> crimson.jar as his parser, and wondered why.  I pointed him at the
> MANIFEST.MF file.  Seems that was the culprit.
>
> So now we have a decision to make.  Do we
>
> a) Remove the Class-Path line from the MANIFEST.  Upside:  People who
> use Crimson won't see two 404 hits.  Downside:  People who use Xerces
> will have to explicitly include it in the applet tags.  Further
> downside:  The cool "java -jar jdom.jar" easter egg won't
> work anymore!
>
> b) Keep the Class-Path line.  Upside:  Easy Xerces and cool -jar.
> Downside:  Two wasted hits.
>
> I suspect there may be a third choice, or more
> upsides/downsides to this
> issue, so I'm writing to the list to see if anyone else has a thought.
>
> -jh-
>
> tobias.kaempf at web.de wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried removing the Entry in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and it works.
> > There is no request for the Xerxes.jar any more on the Network.
> > Thanks for this.
> > The Entry was in the 3. Row of the File :
> >
> > Class-Path: ../lib/xerces.jar xerces.jar
> >
> > Tobias Kämpf
> >
> > Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> schrieb am 19.01.02:
> > > I suspect it's because in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file
> it refers to
> > > xerces.jar.  Try removing that and see if it helps your
> problem.  If so,
> > > we'll have to consider taking that out.
> > >
> > > -jh-
> >
> >
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