In Mustang, we plan to remove sun.io. The contents of this internal API have
been deprecated in favor of java.nio.charset which was introduced in Merlin.
As of Tiger, the old sun.io converters redirect to the new API. Use of
the old converters will result in a deprecation warning at compile time.

The following list of files from the j2se workspace have been identified as
depending on sun.io:

  src/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xml/internal/serialize/EncodingInfo.java
  src/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xml/internal/serializer/Encodings.java
  src/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/xml/internal/serializer/ToStream.java

These files are new to Tiger. If the dependency is mostly superficial, we
would suggest that it be removed before Tiger ships.

These files (and any others which use sun.io) need to be converted to use the
new java.nio APIs by feature freeze of Mustang (at the very latest). Ideally,
we would encourage people to schedule this work for completion in Dragonfly so
that sun.io can be removed before we start shipping Mustang CAP builds or
delivering to Solaris.

-- iag@sfbay 2003-11-11