E4X not work with rhino

Workaround I'm using in Intrepid:

Download rhino1_7R1.zip from Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html).

Extract js.jar from that zip.

Replace /usr/share/java/js-1.7R1.jar with the js.jar you just extracted.

Since as of Intrepid we have libxmlbeans-java packaged, could we enable E4X to build in the Rhino package? Here's the message from the rhino changelog:

rhino (1.6.R5-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed Wolfgang Baer from Uploaders and added myself.
  * Fixed FTBFS: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused.
    Was trying to download xmlbeans Jar, which is not allowed. As
    this Jar is not (yet) in Debian, rhino has been built with XML
    implementation disabled.

I think (but I am not certain) that this bug is breaking a lot of the alfresco-community functionality in particular the wiki in the alfresco share area.

yes, it does affect alfresco-community. A lot of the Alfresco dashlets (bits in the portal area) depend on E4X and assume it is provided by Rhino, I used the workaround above and downloaded rhino1_7R2.zip and overwrote /usr/share/java/js-1.7R1.jar with the js.jar from the zip file, restarted the computer (although restarting tomcat would have been sufficient and now it works fine.

logged the issue with Alfresco too, this isn't really an upstream bug report though as they can't fix it. https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3317

Hi,

I've uploaded a new release of rhino to debian unstable.

 rhino (1.7R2-4) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Enable E4X support:
     - Build-Depends on libxmlbeans-java
     - Set JAR location in debian/ant.properties
     - Should fix (Closes: #567847) and (LP: #304702)
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes needed)
   * Fix small typo in rhino-jsc manpage
   * Fix debian/copyright: don't use symlink to license

This release should fix current issue on E4X.
Could someone from ubuntu team request a sync ?

Greetings,
--
Damien Raude-Morvan

This bug was fixed in the package rhino - 1.7R2-4

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rhino (1.7R2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Enable E4X support:
    - Build-Depends on libxmlbeans-java
    - Set JAR location in debian/ant.properties
    - Should fix (Closes: #567847) and (LP: #304702)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no changes needed)
  * Fix small typo in rhino-jsc manpage
  * Fix debian/copyright: don't use symlink to license
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Sun, 09 May 2010 14:01:45 +0100

Re-opening, since we reverted the fix for Maverick. Should be fixed for Natty, by pushing a couple of MIRs (xmlbeans, saxonb) and manually building xmlbeans in main.

xmlbeans and saxonb now in main so E4X support can be re-enabled.

This bug was fixed in the package rhino - 1.7R2-4ubuntu2

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rhino (1.7R2-4ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

  * Re-enable E4X support (LP: #304702):
    - debian/control: Added Build-Depends on libxmlbeans-java
    - debian/ant.properties: Remove no-e4x flag
 -- James Page <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:51:04 +0000