[JCLOUDS-1408] Consider relying on jaxb-api

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Component/s: jclouds-core
• Labels: dependency
• Assignee: Andrew Gaul
• Reporter: Andrew Gaul
• Created: 14/Apr/18 06:13
• Updated: 23/Feb/24 07:53
• Resolved: 23/Feb/24 07:53

Description

Java 9 removes many EE features which breaks jclouds and we recommend that users add --add-modules java.xml.bind to their flags. However, we can eliminate these flags via an explicit dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>

Ideally we would add this to 2.1.1, ignoring our policy of no new dependencies in minor releases, since this is not really a new dependency. Comments?