It sounds like these changes ought to be ok.  If there is no objection, I will 
go ahead and pull them in this afternoon.

Thanks,
Jared 

> On Aug 21, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> 
> Looking into the legacy repo I can see that the fix for the StringBuffer
> issue was not brought into Geode. The fix was to specifically request the
> Oracle/Sun implementation. Since that implementation might not be available
> in the IBM JDK its probably not a great fix.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 9:28 PM Darren Foong <darrenfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> You're right. This did come up with the IBM JDK and we fixed it. Not
>> sure why then it's coming up again.
>> 
>> Could it be this? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-135
>> Seems like a different issue with the IBM JDK though.
>> 
>> I've just verified that the whitespace problem is still an issue with
>> the IBM JDK (because it uses Apache Xerces), and this pull request
>> fixes it.
>> 
>> Not sure why the reporter for GEODE-135 didn't face a similar problem back
>> then.
>> 
>> - Darren
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io>
>> wrote:
>>> You're right. This did come up with the IBM JDK and we fixed it. Not
>> sure why then it's coming up again.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Dan Smith <dsm...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Since the oracle parser is always going to be there I don't see any
>> harm
>>>> in doing that.
>>>> 
>>>> That's not true if we're running on non-oracle JDKs, right? I remember a
>>>> while back someone was trying to run geode on IBMs JDK and having
>> issues -
>>>> maybe even this same whitespace problem?
>>>> 
>>>> I think it this fixes issues with other parsers it looks good to me, I
>>>> don't have a problem with adding xerces as a test dependency.
>>>> 
>>>> -Dan
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Jacob Barrett <jbarr...@pivotal.io>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I could have sworn at one point the the cache xml parser explicitly
>>>>> requested the oracle parser. Since the oracle parser is always going
>> to be
>>>>> there I don't see any harm in doing that.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A better fix might be to just normalize the white space when parsing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I also recall xerces having a flag for controlling the white space
>>>>> treatment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Jake
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Anilkumar Gingade <aging...@pivotal.io>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Why worry is claiming to support multiple version; and trying to
>>>>>> manage/maintain it...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Anil.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Darren Foong <darrenfo...@gmail.com
>>> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm using Geode in an application that uses the Apache implementation
>>>>>>> of Xerces. The Oracle JDK comes with its own implementation of
>> Xerces.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I encountered an issue
>>>>>>> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-3306) whereby cache.xml
>>>>>>> parsing fails with Apache Xerces; details are in JIRA.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Currently there are two workarounds:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1. Remove the whitespace between elements in cache.xml
>>>>>>> 2. Load the JDK Xerces when parsing cache.xml
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I've submitted a pull request
>>>>>>> (https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/668) to make `CacheXmlParser`
>>>>>>> compatible with both versions of Xerces.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This change would be useful for at least two groups of people:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1. Developers who are using the Apache implementation of Xerces
>>>>>>> throughout their application, and only want one implementation of
>>>>>>> Xerces
>>>>>>> 2. Developers who are using a non-Oracle JDK
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Does anyone have any objections to having `xercesImpl` as a test
>>>>>>> runtime dependency?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'd appreciate any feedback. Thank you!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>> - Darren Foong
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>> 

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