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Bug 94317

Summary:	Let's delete xml-commons-dom-ranges-1.0.b2.jar
Product:	ide	Reporter:	Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach>
Component:	libs	Assignee:	issues@ide <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	apireviews
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	API_REVIEW_FAST
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	The diff of the removal

Description Jaroslav Tulach 2007-02-05 09:26:21 UTC

While thinking about 3rd party libraries I have found out that there is 
modules/ext/xml-commons-dom-ranges-1.0.b2.jar
and I do not understand the need for it. It contains three classes:
  org/w3c/dom/ranges/DocumentRange.class
  org/w3c/dom/ranges/Range.class
  org/w3c/dom/ranges/RangeException.class
however these classes do not seem to be needed by anyone. The xerces-2.8.0 
does not require them. The JDK6 javadoc does not have such package at all: 
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/index.html

That is why I think this package is a just a relict of a past and can be 
deleted. If nobody objects, I'll delete it on Thursday, Feb 8, 2007.

Comment 1 Jaroslav Tulach 2007-02-05 09:26:55 UTC

Created attachment 38019 [details]
The diff of the removal

Comment 2 Jaroslav Tulach 2007-02-08 17:32:17 UTC

/shared/data/ccvs/repository/libs/xerces/build.xml,v  <--  build.xml
new revision: 1.24; previous revision: 1.23
done
Checking in libs/xerces/nbproject/project.properties;
/shared/data/ccvs/repository/libs/xerces/nbproject/project.properties,v  <--  
project.properties
new revision: 1.5; previous revision: 1.4
done
Checking in ide/golden/files-layout.txt;
/shared/data/ccvs/repository/ide/golden/files-layout.txt,v  <--  
files-layout.txt
new revision: 1.207; previous revision: 1.206
done
Checking in ide/golden/public-packages.txt;
/shared/data/ccvs/repository/ide/golden/public-packages.txt,v  <--  
public-packages.txt
new revision: 1.86; previous revision: 1.85

Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2007-02-08 20:07:35 UTC

It's true the JDK Javadoc doesn't list that package, but JDK 5 and 6 include it
nonetheless. (I will file a bug about that.) We used to bundle this JAR because
Xerces links against it (org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl implements it) but
JDK 1.4 does not include it. I guess this dependency is safe to remove now;
currently libs/xerces/build.xml#verify-class-linkage reports only

Warning: org.apache.xerces.util.XMLCatalogResolver cannot access
org.apache.xml.resolver.CatalogManager
Warning: org.apache.xerces.util.XMLCatalogResolver cannot access
org.apache.xml.resolver.Catalog
Warning: org.apache.xerces.util.XMLCatalogResolver cannot access
org.apache.xml.resolver.readers.SAXCatalogReader

which is probably OK.

BTW you forgot to actually delete libs/external/xml-commons-dom-ranges-1.0.b2*,
could you do that please?

I should mention that Xerces 2.9.0 is the current release, we should really
upgrade to it.

Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2007-02-08 20:21:55 UTC

I filed Java bug #6523066 about the lack of documentation of this package.