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List:       xerces-j-dev
Subject:    Re: Single jar file
From:       Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas () ca ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2005-04-08 3:19:36
Message-ID: OFCE93827C.F1E8CA3D-ON85256FDD.001125F0-85256FDD.0012440A () ca ! ibm ! com
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Hello Chris,

There's an FAQ [1] about this in the docs. In older releases of Xerces, 
the APIs and implementation were combined in a single jar file. There's 
still a target in Xerces build.xml called deprecatedjar which will 
generate xerces.jar.

[1] http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-3

"Hewitt, Christopher" <Christopher.Hewitt@tdsecurities.com> wrote on 
04/06/2005 09:26:46 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> I couldn't find much by searching the list archives, so I have a 
> question regarding the xerces jar files.
> 
> Is it safe to merge the impl and xml-apis jar files into a single 
> xerces.jar?  I see no overlap of classes/packages between the two, 
> which makes obvious sense.
> I was however a bit confused when I catenated the bodies of the 
> manifests together, and received warnings about duplicate entries 
> when I tried creating a new jar. 
> 
> Is the information in the manifest even required?  It all seems to 
> be version information, comments, etc.  I just don't really 
> understand why both manifests defined almost identical information 
> for packages in some cases (despite the packages in question only 
> being in one jar).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
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