Interesting,
I've been having the same issue. I sent a patch back in june:
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-967
and never got feedback or anything.
Our team has been waiting a long time for the feature. I'll be filling out the agreement as well.
-jOrGe W.
On Oct 17, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Przemysław Bielicki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK - I was not aware of these restrictions.
>
> I will check the agreement and will sign it ASAP (unless it's a kind of deal with the devil ;)
>
> Many thanks,
> Przemyslaw Bielicki
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Iaroslav Savytskyi <iaroslav.savytskyi_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, JAXB is in active development. We are woking mainly on maintenance now. Also we have several new things in a queue to be implemented.
>
> Regarding the patches. We are not able to work with them until you sign Oracle Contributor Agreement [1] (OCA),
> scan it and e-mail the result to oracle-ca_us(at)oracle.com. More about it
> you can read in [2].
>
> Thanks for your ideas.
>
> [1]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oca-405177.pdf
> [2]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oca-faq-405384.pdf
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Iaroslav Savytskyi
>
> On 17 Oct 2013, at 14:30, Przemysław Bielicki <pbielicki_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is JAXB under active development? I opened few requests and sent patches i.e.:
> > https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-980
> > https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-981
> > https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-983
> >
> > but I see no moves there. I'd like to get these improvements / bugs implemented as soon as possible.
> >
> > I'm backed by a quite big software company but the last thing we want to do is to create own fork of JAXB and maintain it. That's why I submitted patches that fix our problems, while keeping backward compatibility.
> >
> > Can you give me more visibility on issues in question?
> > We cannot wait very long for these changes to be integrated.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Przemyslaw Bielicki
> >
> >
>
>