java/jdk16 missing javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso

[Rob Farmer]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:09:49 +0200, Rob Farmer <rfarmer at predatorlabs.net>
> wrote:
>
>> With java/jdk16:
>>
>> Animal.java:
>>    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso;
>>
>>    @XmlSeeAlso ({Dog.class,Cat.class})
>>    class Animal {}
>>    class Dog extends Animal {}
>>    class Cat extends Animal {}
>>
>> javac Animal.java
>>
>>    Animal.java:1: cannot find symbol
>>    symbol  : class XmlSeeAlso
>>    location: package javax.xml.bind.annotation
>>    import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSeeAlso;
>>                                ^
>>    Animal.java:3: cannot find symbol
>>    symbol: class XmlSeeAlso
>>    @XmlSeeAlso ({Dog.class,Cat.class})
>>     ^
>>    2 errors
>>
>> This class seems to be missing, yet it is listed in the JDK 6 docs:
>>
>>
>> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSeeAlso.html
>>
>
> There are differences in the API's between minor versions of java 6.
> Especially the XML packages have bitten me more than once. That is why it is
> nice, that java/openjdk6 is up to date.
>
> Ronald.
>

My understanding was that there are no minor versions of Java 6 -
everything is 1.6.0 patchlevel XX and if the API changed then 1.6.1
would be released (which hasn't happened). Or is this different
because we are talking about a javax class rather java?

In any case, I'm updating a port and it looks like this class is
needed. Is setting JAVA_VENDOR= openjdk in the Makefile the best way
to force use of openjdk?

-- 
Rob Farmer