JDOM is too cool to be dead and it's not alive either. It's thriving. It's
been accepted as JSR (JSR 102) in spite of the fact that parsing has been
already facilitated in Java platform and usu JDK efforts do not allow
competing APIs. Kudos to Jason Hunter and Brad Mclaughnin.
You can find about JDOM at www.jcp.org (follow JSR 102) or at www.jdom.org.
Regards,
Chandra
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Steven Owens
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:17 AM
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Subject: JDOM alive or dead?
Hey folks,
What's the status of JDOM these days? I was very interested in
it when it first came out, but it's been really quiet since then and
it appears to have stagnated.
We've been doing a ton of servlet-based XML stuff the last
several months, mostly with xalan and xerces.
We did some stuff in XSLT and that turned out to be a lot more
awkward than we hoped. I suspect part of it is purely the shift from
a more conventional language to a functional-ish or maybe, as somebody
else called it, descriptive language. Maybe if I had a better LISP
grounding I would have found it easier.
So then I tried to switch gears and instead of using XSLT, just
did it in java, with the idea that maybe I'd prototype it in a
language I'm more comfortable with, then look at rewriting it into
XSLT. But doing it in java ended up being awkward as hell too (gotta
love that org.w3c.dom).
We ended up building a static class full of little helper methods
to take care of some of the more obnoxious steps (like pulling an
attribute value out of an element, which takes something like four
calls normally). This lead to the thought of building some sort of
wrapper to make it more convenient to interact with w3c DOMs, which
of course lead me back to JDOM. So what's up with JDOM?
Steven J. Owens
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