[GROOVY-10005] Remove groovy-jaxb module from Groovy 4

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-3
• Labels: breaking
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Paul King
• Created: 31/Mar/21 06:30
• Updated: 03/Feb/22 22:05
• Resolved: 05/Apr/21 01:52

Description

Groovy provides some minimal extension methods related to JAXB. Due to JDK9+ no longer bundling those classes, this support is problematical. Given the minimal value add of those methods and increased complexity, this task is to remove that functionality.

See: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2af467cc6967d3c21970241cdf79821a61619a49f416face95390d1b%40%3Cdev.groovy.apache.org%3E