[iainmerrick]

For a lot of people, Java is mainly used to turn XML files into stack traces, so breaking backwards compatibility in XML parsing is a big deal!

Although, if it gives you a stack trace even faster than before, I guess it could be considered a performance improvement...

[vbezhenar]

XML parsing works just fine. It's SOAP and some other classes that were dropped.

I'm not sure if that's a real problem. All it takes is to add few dependencies to pom.xml.

[malfist]

It mattered to us. Our team owned over 50 microservices that all had to have their pom.xml files updated.

But it was worth it. Got us access to the java flight recorder which is an awesome debugging tool.