Never liked the Castor approach... Haven't checked out XJay yet, but it
sounds promising... :-)
So, +1.
Neeme
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> Subject: (VOTE) Remove Castor from Jetspeed.
>
>
> OK..
>
> I am done with Castor (the XML marshaling infrastructure in
> Jetsped)...
> please vote:
>
> - Castor breaks *everytime* we upgrade it!
> - Castor is *very* rigid in building APIs. We can't customize this!
> - Castor builds the marshaling infrastructure *into* the generated
> objects... thus we can *not* use these within the Jetspeed core :(
> - Castor does not have any forced naming convention... IE a <url>
> element has the method getUrl() and not getURL().
>
> Of course we need an alternative. I propose XJay
> (http://xjay.sourceforge.net). It should fix the above problems. In
> order to parse the XML I am going to use the XML parsing and object
> populator that comes with Ant. XJay is already used within
> Jetspeed and
> provides our peers... I just want it to provide everything but be very
> clean/fast/flexible/solid.
>
> I am also going to propose to the PMC that XJay gets adopted by
> xml.apache.org. It is only a 1 day job to add this stuff.
>
> ... of course I am not going to commit to a timeframe... I
> just want the
> approval to go ahead and remove Castor when I am ready.
>
> Kevin
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