[CACTUS-242] Remove Xerces dependency

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.8
• Component/s: Ant Integration
• Assignee: Petar Tahchiev
• Reporter: Felipe Leme
• Created: 24/Apr/06 08:44
• Updated: 08/Mar/08 17:21
• Resolved: 08/Mar/08 17:21

Description

Now that Cactus uses JDK 1.4, we should get rid of Xerces and XML Apis dependencies.

Looking at the code, it seems like only the writeWebXml() and writeApplicationXml() methods use them, so it's not just a matter of removing the JARs, we must replace these methods (which do not have a test case, BTW) or just remove them (they are helper methods are not used anywhere else on Cactus - but they're public, so I'm not sure if it's a good idead to remove them...)