Re: org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler in xml-commons/JAXP

With the next version of xml-apis knocking on the door, could someone
shed some light on how will the problem below be addressed in the new
version?

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 21:06, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> I'm wondering what is the correct method signature of
> org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler.resolveEntity(), in SAX it is
> declared to throw an IOException, whereas in J2SE 1.4.x, J2EE 1.3.x only
> SAXException is declared (IOException is documented, which is clearly
> bogus ATM, it's a checked exception but not declared).
> 
> The difference is visible here:
> http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/helpers/DefaultHandler.html#resolveEntity(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/org/xml/sax/helpers/DefaultHandler.html#resolveEntity(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)
> 
> AFAICT, the IOException has always been thrown in upstream SAX.  Also,
> this issue has been identified as a in-progress bug in JAXP:
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4749727.html
> 
> xml-commons-1.0 followed upstream SAX, but I see this has been changed
> to (bug-)compatible in tck-jaxp-1_2_0:
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-commons/java/external/src/org/xml/sax/helpers/DefaultHandler.java.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.2.6.1&only_with_tag=tck-jaxp-1_2_0
> 
> However, BUGS-sax (outdated?) has a [FIXED] entry about the opposite:
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-commons/java/external/BUGS-sax?rev=1.1&only_with_tag=tck-jaxp-1_2_0&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> I'm somewhat confused, and would like to hear some opinions what should
> one expect to happen about this in the future.
> 
> Thanks,