Hi Joachim,

you thoughts sound good to me.

Will try to have a look at the grammer and help you get it translated to
 JavaCC but as I'm quite busy these days I can not promis when I will be
able to do so.

Regards
Ralf


Joachim Grüneis schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> please read inline...
> 
> 2008/10/28 Ralf Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Hi Joachim,
>>
>> I do not like the inflationary increase of modules we see at the moment.
>> Please keep in mind that our users have to add a new dependency for each of
>> our modules.
> 
> either I check-in the pull parser as part of xml module or in a
> complete new project; having it as additional module makes no sense as
> we would still introduce the new dependencies
> 
>> Having said that the increasing number of dependecies to external jar's
>> isn't a good direction either but there doesn't seam to be much alternatives
>> for the pull parser.
> 
> This is exactly my point and why I kicked off this thread... both
> choices aren't fine
> 
>> In which Java version is the StAX API included?
> 
> JDK6 and JAXP 1.4
> 
>> StAX implementation should be required for tests only?
> 
> yep
> 
>> Is ANTLR needed at runtime or only during build?
> 
> that was one point why you choose to take JavaCC - ANTLR requires a
> runtime library
> for the prototype - and as you hadn't had a decision at this point -
> we took ANTLR as it is easier to build a grammar with it
> 
>> As you may remember our discussion about parser generators during
>> implementation of pull parser. JavaCC, which will be used at JDO in the
>> future, is only required during build but not at runtime.
>>
>> IMHO we should already try to reduce number of modules and external
>> dependencies with future releases. I also think of throwing away features or
>> parts of code that get never used at this step.
> 
> I'm currently thinking we should:
> * check it into xml module
> * transfer the grammar to JavaCC
> * introduce the StAX dependency
> 
> Have fun
> Joachim
> 
>> Regards
>> Ralf
>>
>>
>> Joachim Grüneis schrieb:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> after adapting the existing pull purser patch I'm not 100% sure if we
>> should have it in the main source tree of Castor...
>> it requires StAX API's, StAX implementation and two ANTLR libraries
>> maybe - even that it is a very small piece of code - we should have it
>> in an own project?
>>
>> what is your opinion?
>>
>> Joachim
>>
>> 2008/10/23 Werner Guttmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> any chances of committing yourself to a firm deadline? I would like to
>> ship 1.3 final any time soon, and I do not want to be waiting for weeks.
>>
>> Werner
>>
>> Joachim Grüneis wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I plan to add it to the code base within the next days...
>>
>> Joachim
>>
>> 2008/10/22 Werner Guttmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>
>> Hi Joachim,
>>
>> what are your plans of committing the pull-parsing add-on that has been
>> developed as part of GSoC 2008 ?
>>
>> Werner
>>
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