I've been using dom4j for a little more than 6 months now, as part of a professional project. I managed to convice the hierarchy that dom4j/jaxen was worth considering instead of the typical W3C DOM Xerces/Xalan pair, saying that dom4j was faster, easier to use, while being "compatible" with the W3C model, and that is was "maintained and updated frequently"...
I have to admit I'm getting more and more worried because of the lack of serious release since 1.3. I have the CVS checkout on my dev box, but I actually use the 1.4dev in my project. (from: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/dom4j/jars/ ) James, we love your work and dom4j is definitely a worth-using xml document model. But please, keep up informed about the current status of your work. Late 2002, you said (in one of the mailing lists) that a new release was on the way out. The release didn't come out, and you said that it was due to some failed Junit tests... Since then, we had no more feedback from you, apart from the (always excelent) replies to the issues raised in the mailing lists. In fact, recently you seems to be out of the mailing lists...are you still maintaining this project at all ? dom4j has got numerous bugs to be fixed, and there's room for lots of improvements. A lot of developers that are using dom4j are willing to help with the updates, I'm sure. Please, at least, keep us up to date with the status of the ongoing work. Otherwise, rumors will soon appear saying dom4j is a stalled project, with no serious implication from its developers. Latest Jdom release is dated 03.28.2002 (JDOM Beta 8), latest dom4j release is dated March 13, 2002 (dom4j 1.3). Xerces is still a very active project, and most dom4j users actually use the SAX parser of the latest Xerces Java2 distribution in association with dom4j. ( http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/index.html ) My project being in early stages of developement, I sometimes wonder if I should switch back to W3C DOM, and give up with dom4j... Those issues raise serious concerns among the developers community, but we love dom4j for what it provides, we don't want it to die, and we are willing to help ! Thanks for your attention. - Dan I would like to echo this sentiment. dom4j is a great package, and I would like to know that it is still a living effort. -bryan I've been recommended dom4j to developers for the last year and a half, but I'm growing increasingly concerned about the lack of any follow-up since the 1.3 release. I pointed out a serious performance issue with the 1.3 release a year ago, and there've also been a number of other fixes in CVS. This doesn't help most users who just download the latest release, though. I'm having an increasingly hard time justifying dom4j as a solution when it goes more than a year between releases. James, if you're unable to do a maintenance release perhaps one of the other developers can do this? I think dom4j is an excellent document model and I'd hate to see it die through neglect of basic maintenance after all the work that's gone into it. - Dennis For what it's worth, there are some 1.4 snapshots on ibiblio that lots of us are using, updated as late as 3-jan-2003. http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/dom4j/jars/ -bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
