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Re: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/namespace/QName

From: Ryan Shoemaker - JavaSoft East <Ryan.Shoemaker_at_sun.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:31:04 -0500

Mark Brouwer wrote:
>
> But I must also admit that the way the Class-Path is assembled in the
> jaxb-xjc.jar is not my way of doing things, but that I guess is the
> effect of bundling all the XML technologies as part of the JWSDP, which
> IMHO has been a very bad decision.
>

I can understand your point of view, but please keep in mind that we are
providing all of these technologies for free. Aside from the large-ish
download, we do provide the ability to custom install specific components
from the JWSDP, so it shouldn't be too much of a burden.

> While I'm at it, are there any plans to provide maintenance releases or
> seperate releases of JAXB independent of the JWSDP?

At this point, the plan is to ship maintenance releases with the JWSDP.

--Ryan