Bin- I personally have never used XMLEncoder, so please take my words with a grain of salt. Looking at the API specification, XMLEncoder appears similar to other XML serialization tools for Java (XStream, JSX, etc). In my experience most of these tools don't provide much control over the appearance of the XML, they may or may not provide validation during marshalling/unmarshalling, and they don't provide a good way to tie in an external XML schema to the Java object model.
I personally prefer Castor to these other tools because I get a large amount of control over how my XML appears after marshalling a Java object model. If I want to (not that I do it as often as some) I can have Castor create Java code from an XML schema. Castor can validate XML via a schema during unmarshalling, and with correctly coded ClassDescriptors, validate the object model during marshalling. All of the above factors are important to me because I work in an environment of prototypes -- development timelines are short, and there isn't a lot of time to build helper apps. Rather than building a GUI that reads the XML and allows a user to modify objects before running the code, the general understanding is that the user will simply modify the XML. With some of the other tools, that might be a tall order, but with Castor I can make my element and attribute names clean, concise, and understandable. In other environments, the XML is never looked at by a human, and so what it looks like doesn't matter much. In that case, a fast, simple serialization method might be of more use. To me, Castor is about control of the XML. If you have further questions, feel free to ask. I feel a little funny getting up on the soapbox, so I think I'd rather step down and answer more direct questions :-) Thanks, Stephen On 4/12/06, bin lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Our project is in the middle of selecting a tool for > persistence service. > > Anyone can give or point me to the brief comparision > between castor xml and JDK XMLEncoder, so I can > convince others to use castor? > > Thanks > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please > send an empty message to the following address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------- > >
