[jdom-interest] Convoluted Document Construction on b10

[Robert Koberg]

Robert Koberg wrote:

> Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
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>> Jason Hunter writes:
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>>> It's well understood.  The reason is that Java doesn't have covariant 
>>> return types so the new Parent interface's addContent() methods 
>>> returns Parent and the Element implementation can't return the more 
>>> specific type of Element.  You can do it in J2SE 1.5.
>>>
>>> Options are: rip out the Parent interface, write an 
>>> addContent(Parent) method as a nasty hack, keep it this way and have 
>>> a J2SE 1.5 version.
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>> Or have addContent return void and put a stop to this insanity once and
>> for all.
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> What are people moving to? JDOM seem to have become an experiment. Is 
> dom4j the best choice? Is XOM? Are people madly refactoring for the 
> radical changes? (does beta mean anything?)
> 
> -Rob
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>> Brad
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