[853] Deprecate Link JAXB inner classes

[andymc12]

Deprecates the JAXB inner classes in the Link class, and modifies the example code use JSON instead of XML so as to avoid any dependencies on JAXB / Jakarta XML Binding.

This closes #853.

[spericas]

Feels good to approve this one!

The base branch was changed.

[andymc12]

Hmm... the force push ended up pulling in several other commits unrelated to this PR. Now that 3.0.0 is released, should I be making this change in 3.1-SNAPSHOT or master? The intent is for it to be in 3.1, but I was thinking that master was retargeted for the 3.1 release. This is a small change, so if it makes sense for me to just open up a new/clean PR I can do that - but which branch should I base it on? Thanks

[mkarg]

Hmm... the force push ended up pulling in several other commits unrelated to this PR. Now that 3.0.0 is released, should I be making this change in 3.1-SNAPSHOT or master? The intent is for it to be in 3.1, but I was thinking that master was retargeted for the 3.1 release. This is a small change, so if it makes sense for me to just open up a new/clean PR I can do that - but which branch should I base it on? Thanks

Just wait a bit. I am in the middle of putting 3.1-SNAPSHOT ontop master but got stuck due to a build fail last night on JDK 14+. Once that is solved and merged, just rebase this PR's source branch ontop master then. This will remove the unwanted commits.

[andymc12]

@mkarg sounds good. I did rebase the PR from 3.1-SNAPSHOT to master which removed the approvals. So once you've got master the way we want it, I'll ask you all to re-approve. Thanks

[mkarg]

Just waiting for your approval of #920. :-)

[mkarg]

@andymc12 Can you now please rebase on master and then force-push with the same branch name? Thanks! :-)

[andymc12]

All set - now it is rebased on master (which is targeting the 3.1 release). @chkal @mkarg @spericas could you please re-approve? Thanks!

[chkal]

Thanks @andymc12