[TIKA-2466] Remove JAXB usage

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.14, 1.15, 1.16
• Fix Version/s: 1.17
• Component/s: config
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Munteanu
• Created: 14/Sep/17 19:25
• Updated: 29/Oct/19 15:52
• Resolved: 21/Sep/17 20:51

Description

Starting with Java 9 the javax.xml.bind classes are now part of the java.se.ee module which is not enabled by default. To simplify the Java 9 integration ( no --add-modules CLI switch, no explicity Java 9 module ) I propose we simply replace JAXB with something else.

See https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/72342314e709417bcb777fd3511b700dee443a3a658b730e52f99e38@%3Cuser.tika.apache.org%3E for more context

Issue Links

• blocks: SLING-7108 FullTextIndexingTest times out on Java 9
• relates to: TIKA-2470 Illegal reflective Access -- more cleanup for Java 9