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Re: Patching JAXB

From: Brandon Franklin <brandon_at_thoughtriver.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 05:37:30 +0930

That's great news...Thanks for the response! I'm sure all of us will be
eager to know about your solution to this.

-Brandon
 Thought River South


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas John Kincaid" <Tom.Kincaid_at_Sun.COM>
To: <JAXB-INTEREST_at_JAVA.SUN.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: Patching JAXB


> OK, mercy.... uncle.... stop you guys are right :-). We are working on
> it. We have had something in the works for quite some time. I agree that
> this is a serious issue. It is something we hope to resolve *very* soon.
>
>
>
> Gary Gregory wrote:
> > +1.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brandon Franklin [mailto:brandon_at_thoughtriver.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:10
> > To: JAXB-INTEREST_at_JAVA.SUN.COM
> > Subject: Patching JAXB
> >
> > So, with this new release of JAXB, which is AWESOME by the way...I think
a
> > different problem is illustrated.
> >
> > I know we've already discussed the bunding of JAXB with the larger
> > JWSDP. I
> > understand the reasoning and I guess that topic's settled. However, it
> > seems that Sun might consider some kind of a slipstream patching
approach,
> > at the very least for JAXB.
> >
> > Consider that within less than 24 hours of this release, in this mailing
> > list alone there have already been bugs reported and fixed. What if
they
> > were really serious? Would everybody have to wait for JWSDP 1.3 before
the
> > fixes were seen?
> >
> > What I'm wondering is if patch releases like JAXB 1.0.1_01 could be
> > integrated into the JWSDP release on the website without a big revision
> > process, and a "new release" and all that. JWSDP 1.2 was released with
no
> > beta period, so there was no chance for us to find these problems before
> > the
> > "official" release.
> >
> > Would Sun be willing to consider that? Maybe even something like JWSDP
> > 1.2_01? I don't know...but it seems like it would be a smart move.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Brandon
> > Thought River South
> >
>