I would be ready to help phasing XMLBean out, in favor of JAXB (i use it since 2002) or else. While is sound scary (and it may be), why not doing a spike first?
Regards, Cédric Walter ---- Find me on the Web <https://www.waltercedric.com/index.php/about/me-on-the-web> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > Could POI take on XMLbeans as a second product? If they intend to > maintain it, and can provide 3+ PMC members who will vote on releases, > then presumably the POI project could make releases of the Apache > XMLBeans product? > > Then there's no naming issues, everyone benefits from public releases. > At such a point as there is enough interest, it can fork back into its > own community. POI committers would gain commit rights on an XMLBeans > repo. > > Upayavira > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, at 04:59 PM, Javen O'Neal wrote: > > Any other project using XMLBeans on Android would likely be affected by > > the > > same issue. Making the XMLBeans update within the POI source code or POI > > maven coordinates would make it more difficult for others to find this > > update. > > > > If we had to change the Java package name to > > org.apache.poi.internal.xmlbeans, it would take a bit of trickery to > > allow > > users to continue using the official releases, XMLBeans 2.3.0 or 2.6.0 if > > the bug doesn't affect them. > > > > On Nov 7, 2017 03:41, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 7 November 2017 at 07:20, jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > > >> On 6 Nov 2017, at 21:47, Dominik Stadler <dominik.stad...@gmx.at> > wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> The Apache XMLBeans library was moved to the Attic a few years ago > > >> (05/2014), however Apache POI still uses the library as it's core XML > > >> binding framework. > > >> > > >> While the Apache POI PMC and the development community is already > > >> discussing possible replacements for some time, use of XMLBeans is > still > > >> deeply rooted and thus hard to replace quickly. > > >> > > >> Over time, we discovered a few grave bugs in XMLBeans which lead to > > >> bug-reports that we cannot fix ourselves. > > >> > > >> Therefore we would like to start discussion about an NMU of XMLBeans > to > > get > > >> a fix for the most pressing issues. > > >> > > >> See https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59268 for the full > > >> discussion,and https://github.com/pjfanning/xmlbeans for a fork with > > >> initial bugfixes. > > >> > > >> Among others, we would like to fix the following, changes for these > are > > >> already applied and verified in the github fork: > > >> * the official XMLBeans-JAR contains duplicate classes, making it > > >> impossible to use it on Android as the Android build fails due to this > > >> * cannot use Unicode surogates, thus affecting use of Apache POI in > > >> non-latin-script areas > > >> * Remove W3C and JAVAX classes which are not needed any more since > Java 6 > > >> (current Apache POI development is on Java 8) > > >> > > >> > > >> So is there a precedent for something like this? What steps do we > need to > > >> make to get an updated version of XMLBeans published? > > > > > > Others might have examples of how it was done in the past. Making a > fork > > on e.g. github with a new non-apache name is the simplest way. > > > > > > However if I understand it correct your intention is only to maintain > > XMLbeans for the benefit of POI. That gives you (as I see it) another > > option, you can include the source code in your project and do the > > patches > > as part of your project. > > > > I think it would need to be in a different package to avoid possible > > confusion with the original. > > And it should be obvious that it is not intended for external use. > > > > e.g. org.apache.poi.internal.xmlbeans > > > > > rgds > > > jan i > > >> > > >> > > >> Thanks... Dominik > > >> > > >> On behalf of the Apache POI PMC > > >> > > >> > > >> About Apache POI > > >> ----------------------- > > >> > > >> Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading > and > > >> writing Microsoft Office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, > Word, > > >> Visio, Publisher and Outlook. It supports both the older (OLE2) and > > >> new (OOXML - Office Open XML) formats. > > >> > > >> See https://poi.apache.org/ for more details > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@poi.apache.org > >
