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uPortal 2.5 will standardize upon and use the APIs.
What specific APIs are we talking about?
They are the APIs and implementation .jars included in JRE 1.5 (J2SE 5) and distributed at Java.net for use in JRE 1.3 and JRE 1.4. uPortal 2.5 requires JRE 1.4 or later and so we aren't particularly concerned with how to make these APIs available in JRE 1.3.
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IPortalDocument, PortalDcoumentImpl, and the uPortal DocumentFactory API become formally deprecated by this change. Instead, code using XML functionality in uPortal 2.5 is encouraged to move to use the new standard XML APIs.
Specific code examples
What was previously accomplished by:
Is now accomplished by:
The long version
If you're thinking "Wait, wait! You've been too concise – I really want to read a longer account of what's going on here." – here it is: