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Hibernate version: 3.2.5ga

My question is very simple. I'm using Hibernate 3.2.5ga with Java 5. I currently have an xml-apis.jar in my classpath but it is a very old one that was distributed with JBoss 3.2.7 and implements JAXP 1.2. Java 5 is on JAXP 1.3.

The README.txt says this of the xml-apis.jar:
- Standard JAXP API
- runtime, some SAX parser is required

Java 5 comes bundled with a Xerces parser if I'm understanding this correctly. Furthermore, xml-apis doesn't actually include any implementations but rather the specs themselves so this statement seems slightly inaccurate.

Is it required when running Hibernate 3.2.5ga in a Java 5 JRE?