[jdom-interest] Is JDOM dying?

[Malachi de AElfweald]

Well, I am creating schemas anyways, so that I can validate the XML - which
I never got to work with JDOM (though without JDOM it worked).

As far as the namespace stuff... it is just really annoying to have to
add it for every single element... a lot of my applications pass Element's
around -- and the classes handle that specific element, without any 
namespace
knowledge...  For example, I implemented a JFileChooser that handles remote
filesystems (windows or unix)... They serialize the filesets, without any
knowledge of what enclosing tags they will be embedded in.  Most of the 
time,
things like that are in a common routine, and the one actually 
sending/receiving
the XML are in an application-specific handler... As such, two or three 
different
classes may wrap it differently....

I am planning on writing a schema for the fileset stuff -- but right now I 
don't have
one.  As such, I am outputting everything without any namespaces, since 
there is no way
for the application-specific logic to make the decision for the common 
routines (without
making lots of ugly overloaded methods)...

With JAXB, I say something like getFileset() and it returns me an object 
that handles
it, and manages all the namespaces behind the scenes.  I set the namespaces 
once on the
root element and am done with it. Much more convenient.

Malachi

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:51:07 -0800, Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> 
wrote:

> Last I checked, JAXB required schemas for every document format and
> wouldn't let you create a new document with a different schema.
>
> What's the problem with namespace mgmt?
>
> -jh-
>
> Malachi de AElfweald wrote:
>>
>> I have to say that I am honestly considering moving to JAXB.
>> The biggest reason? Namespace management. Oh, and never having to do 
>> detach
>> again.
>>
>> Malachi
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:25:45 -0500, <Kevin.Bedell at sunlife.com> wrote:
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>> > I use it all the time as well and share Jason's concerns.
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>> > I wouldn't consider movingback to straight DOM-or SAX-basd parsing.
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>> > "Jason Long"                      To: "JDOM" <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
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>> > I have been using JDOM for some time, and I have noticed the following
>> > problems:
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>> > 1.  There seems to be no desire to have a new release or even talk 
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>> > 2.  There hasn't been any update to the web site in a year.
>> > 3.  Very few messages are posted to this list.
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>> > I enjoy using JDOM, if fact my project rely heavily on it.
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>> > Jason Long - CEO and Chief Software Engineer
>> > Supernova Software - supernovasoftware.com
>> > BS Physics, MS  Chemical Engineering
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