[jdom-interest] Is JDOM dying?

[Dennis Sosnoski]

JAXB was released last month, as part of the Java Web Services Developer 
Pack 1.1 from Sun. This was probably premature - they'd done a beta 
release back last fall, then nothing until the FCS release with a lot of 
added code. I gather it was a date-driven release, but that's 
understandable - it's been in development since 1999 and I'd suspect 
some people at Sun were ready to kill it if it didn't ship soon. JDOM 
may still be able to beat their time to FCS...

Unfortunately, it's not currently licensed for distribution outside of 
the developer pack. This means you're stuck with a rather large download 
in order to distribute anything using JAXB.

  - Dennis

Malachi de AElfweald wrote:

> Really? Ryan Shoemaker (JavaSoft East <Ryan.Shoemaker at Sun.COM>) told 
> me on the JAXB-Interest list
> to go ahead and sign them for JNLP distribution myself, and the next 
> release will have the jars signed.
>
> Malachi
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> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:46:48 -0800, Alexey Solofnenko 
> <A.Solofnenko at mdl.com> wrote:
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>> JAXB is not ready yet, so you cannot redistribute it.
>>
>> - Alexey.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Malachi de AElfweald [mailto:malachi at tremerechantry.com] Sent: 
>> Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:03 AM
>> To: Kevin.Bedell at sunlife.com; JDOM
>> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Is JDOM dying?
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>> 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
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>> 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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>>> 03/12/2003 02:26 PM
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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 
>>> about
>>> it.
>>> 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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