[fedora-java] Should java-1.4.2-gcj-compat require xerces-j2?

[Gary Benson]

David Walluck wrote:
> Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> wrote:
> >* Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> [2005-08-03 13:13]:
> > > java-1.4.2-gcj-compat provides jaxp_parser_impl, but it doesn't
> > > require xerces-j2, which seems to actually provide the
> > > functionality.
> >
> > I think gnuxml (or gnujaxp or whatever it's called) provides the
> > functionality in libgcj.  I could be wrong, though.
> 
> The java-1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm more-or-less ``correctly'' provides
> jaxp_parser_impl since the necessary classes are in rt.jar, so
> xerces-j2 isn't needed. However, in practice whenever I tried to
> build or run packages with the GNU jaxp or transform
> implementations, it would fail.

Why did it fail?  Both ant and eclipse use libgcj's XML code and work
fine with it, so I'm guessing it's pretty decent.

Cheers,
Gary