Google App Engine not just missing Stax API, forbidding it?

[Cowtowncoder]

Hmmh. According to:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/jrewhitelist.html

it looks like Stax API is nowhere to be seen. This despite their claim
it's JVM 1.6. Apparently JDK is something much less than 1.6.
I suppose it's just a clerical error, or ignorance on Google's part,
and not a conscious decision.
But it's unfortunate at any rate.

Now if I understand this correctly it doesn't just mean that there's
no stax impl or api included, but that YOU CAN NOT USE STAX AT ALL.
This because white list does not contain API classes, and so even if
you do include the jar, you'll get an exception trying to use it.

Feel free to correct me if my understanding is incorrect here,

-+ Tatu +-

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[Werner Donné]

Hi Tatu,

It was on some news sites that Google didn't include all the Java
libraries and that Sun is furious about it. If this was intentional
then Google is very stupid.

Best regards,

Werner.

On 14 Apr 2009, at 18:46, Tatu Saloranta wrote:

> Hmmh. According to:
>
> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/jrewhitelist.html
>
> it looks like Stax API is nowhere to be seen. This despite their claim
> it's JVM 1.6. Apparently JDK is something much less than 1.6.
> I suppose it's just a clerical error, or ignorance on Google's part,
> and not a conscious decision.
> But it's unfortunate at any rate.
>
> Now if I understand this correctly it doesn't just mean that there's
> no stax impl or api included, but that YOU CAN NOT USE STAX AT ALL.
> This because white list does not contain API classes, and so even if
> you do include the jar, you'll get an exception trying to use it.
>
> Feel free to correct me if my understanding is incorrect here,
>
> -+ Tatu +-
>
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[Cowtowncoder]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Werner Donné <werner.donne@...> wrote:
> Hi Tatu,
>
> It was on some news sites that Google didn't include all the Java
> libraries and that Sun is furious about it. If this was intentional
> then Google is very stupid.

I would think it is not intentional. But I really hope it gets
resolved. If anyone knows a way to report this that might be helpful
(please add xxx).

Also I don't even know if javax.* packages have same or different
rules as 'core' java.* packages. Javax should theoretically mean
extension, so it could have looser rules. But given description of
whitelisting they are probably blocked.

-+ Tatu +-

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