Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Scott Sanders wrote:
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>
>> I am going to need to use something for CJAN to create Java Objects from
>> XML.
>>
>> I watched this go around the list a while back, and several solutions
>> were being talked about, including Digester from Struts, XmlMapper from
>> Tomcat, Ant's way to do it, and also JOCL, I think.
>>
>> So, the question is, which one should we start with? I have ported
>> XmlMapper out of the Tomcat 3.2 code base, and know quite a bit about
>> it, and even like it ;-) I heard that you guys might be moving on
>> Digester, and I also looked at the Ant way over the weekend.
>>
>> So, Craig, is Digester just an easier to use XmlMapper? Should I move it
>> into the sandbox?
>>
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>
> Yes digester is an easier-to-use (and better documented) XmlMapper, but
> that's IMHO.
>
> Please feel free (and put me in the STATUS.html initial committers list),
> although this raises yet another issue for us to think about.
>
> A lot of the code that has been, or will be, proposed for Commons already
> exists in other Jakarta projects. This includes (from Struts) the
> beanutils stuff that's already in, Digester, and the FastXxxxx collections
> classes. Is it important to copy all this stuff into Sandbox for
> evaluation, or can we just have a proposal that says "go look at the
> following classes in the foo project"?
>
>
>> Scott Sanders
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>>
>
> Craig
I was shooting for the sandbox purely to do it _TODAY_, but I will
submit a proposal and see how it works out...
In general, something as complete as Digester should just be proposed to
go straight to commons.
Scott Sanders
