[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-2125) Hibernate XML Mapping should not depend on dom4j

[Eugen Paraschiv (JIRA)]

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Eugen Paraschiv commented on HHH-2125:
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Hi,
I have also been having some issues with versions of xml-apis, issues that originate with the hibernate-entitymanager having this dependency on dom4j. As far as I can tell, dom4j is more than 6 years old and clearly no longer under active development. My question is if it would make sense to actually move away from dom4j in Hibernate?
Any feedback on this is appreciated.
Thanks. 

> Hibernate XML Mapping should not depend on dom4j
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HHH-2125
>                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2125
>             Project: Hibernate ORM
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0 cr1, 3.2.0.cr2, 3.2.0.cr3, 3.2.0.cr4
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Don Smith
>
> Hibernate XML mapping requires dom4j, which is one of the packages that causes the Java version of "dll hell" - applications requiring conflicting versions of jars with no way to resolve the problem in a given release of an application server or package.
> HIbernate should be converted to use the standard XML APIs included in the JRE 5.0 specification, when Hibernate no longer needs to support JRE 1.4.x.

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