[XERCESC-1552] Relative capability, language and version number questions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: Miscellaneous
• Environment: Solaris
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David G. Pickett
• Created: 18/Jan/06 10:21
• Updated: 01/Feb/06 03:41
• Resolved: 18/Jan/06 10:31

Description

We are planning to do a project using Xerces. It is a bit confusing that the level of support of XML Standards is hard to quantify. It feels like J2 is the real product, and C++ is chasing it but supports less. But then, the version numbers are just a minor point apart. Is this a red herring, or are the product actually verey comparable?

The reason for J1 was not obvious, is it there as more stable, or for legacy support, or are there other virtues to the low number?

It seems like the class names for similar putposes (I was looking at SAX*) do not match up, making use of the more prolific JAVA examples in C++ a bit challenging. Are the two products marching in different directions?

Is there a recommended, verified, minimum or maximum JRE/JDK version for the JAVA products, or does is the API somehow certified to work with every know version?