Hi all,
I've had some people asking me about continued support for JiBX,
including Java 7 support without the workarounds currently required, so
thought I'd let users know the situation and see if anything can be done.
From the beginning, commercial clients have motivated much of the work
on JiBX. That doesn't mean that most of the work was paid - at least not
at any kind of normal hourly rate for development - but that the
payments from clients were enough to encourage me to continue the
development. Unfortunately that hasn't been happening over the last
couple of years, so my work on JiBX has tapered off to pretty much
nothing. Don deserves major kudos from the JiBX community for picking up
much of the slack, but is probably not able to handle core issues on his
own.
I have an approach in mind for handling the Java 7 issues, which is
basically to move most of the JiBX code out of Java 7 class files and
into generated class files marked as Java 6 compatible. I'd like to get
this in place as part of an official JiBX 1.2.4 release, but the work is
more involved than I'm willing to take on with no payment. If there are
any companies using JiBX that might be interested in sponsoring this
work, please contact me directly and I'll try to arrange it.
Longer term, I'd like to finally get JiBX 2 out. I've done most of the
preliminary work for this, but again the actual development is going to
take more time and effort than I'm willing to take on without payment.
JiBX 2 will offer some great features which I think would make it very
useful, including source code generation as an alternative to bytecode
generation, even better performance, and improved support for XML schema
code generation. But Sun/Oracle has bundled JAXB support into the Java
runtime, and if most people are satisfied with that there's not much
incentive for doing something better.
So if people would like to see JiBX remain a viable alternative in the
near term and an even better alternative in the future some companies
need to support the work - the more the better!
My thanks to all of you who are using JiBX,
- Dennis
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