On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Adrian Custer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>

>
> The JAXB question is more complex, raising the existence of the
> religious war that so tiringly rages in our midst. There are the two
> factions in Geotools, the eclipse sect and the sun fanatics. Neither can
> tolerate the technology of the other and both are too lazy to really
> learn the strengths and limitations of the technology of the other. SLD
> parsing has been done both ways, with JAXB and by hand parsing. Both
> work, and both could probably co-exist but religious wars tend not to
> produce a good environment for co-existence.
>

On a historical note - the reason I didn't use JAXB when I first wrote
the SLD code was that it didn't exist in those days. This may have led
to religious arguments later but at the time the only discussion we
had was to hand code the parser in sax or dom.

Ian
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Ian Turton
http://www.geotools.org
http://pennspace.blogspot.com/

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