i've no idea if this is really what you are looking for, but since you guys haven't mentioned it, i'll make sure you are aware of it...
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/betwixt/ and no, i've never used it either. but it seems to me that the combination of this and digester (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/ ...which i have used, and i believe betwixt can automatically generate rules for) would be quite "fault tolerant". On 11/2/05, Scott Edward Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah... abebooks. Do you guys support OS X yet? :-) > > I am also looking for some kind of XML data binding for Java. The two > big guns are Sun's JAXB and Apache's XMLBeans. Both rely on schemas > and don't strike me as being particularly "lightweight". It wouldn't > be that difficult to roll your own or repurpose open source to add > the features you want. Here... > > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-1999/jw-03-beans-p2.html > > ...is an old article demonstrating such an application (complete with > source code). The 1.5 J2SE also has a simple bean reader/writer. You > could look at the source code for that as well. > > -S > > > On Nov 2, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Peter Locke wrote: > > > There are a lot of smart individuals on this list and am hoping > > someone can > > recommend a good technology. > > > > Essentially I need a lightweight library that can do simple bean<->xml > > conversions without mappings, but handle out of bounds data for > > different > > versions of xml and beans. > > > > XStream http://xstream.codehaus.org/ is a perfect example of > > everything I > > need *except* it does not handle out of bounds data - for example > > if the xml > > is missing a tag or has an unexpected tag, I want the bean object > > to still be > > created, with the extra tag ignored or the property corresponding to a > > missing tag left at its default value. > > > > thanks > > > > -- > > Peter Locke > > Senior Engineer / Dev Lead > > www.abebooks.com <http://www.abebooks.com/> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
