[jdom-interest] serialize a Java object in XML file?

[Shaun Smith]

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for your informative reply.  Do you have a [public] source 
for info on this;
I'd be really interested to learn some more about it.
Regards,

Shaun.


> 
> JAXB EA1 is probably not a good choice - it's basically an orphan 
> technology at this point, since Sun has announced that the 
> architecture 
> of the next EA will basically abandon Adelard. The new 
> direction will be 
> much more like Castor so you're probably better off using 
> that for now.
> 
> Project Adelard had some very cool ideas, including using a 
> pull parser 
> in generated code for automatic DTD-based validation as the 
> document was 
> constructed. This allowed them to build the marshalling and 
> unmarshalling code directly into the classes, so variables 
> didn't need 
> to be public (or have public accessors).
> 
> Sun said they had too many problems trying to extend this approach to 
> support Schema, so they changed to an external binding library that 
> takes a more conventional approach to working with 
> "bean-like" objects. 
> I wish they'd release Adelard as unsupported open source so users can 
> build upon what they've got working, but it seems unlikely that they 
> will. I imagine they'll at least try to make the migration to the new 
> code as easy as possible.


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