[jdom-interest] [benchmark] JAXB VS JDOM

[Elliotte Harold]

Trikannad, Mahesh wrote:

> My reasoning, for JAXB being faster, is since it creates the DOM tree at
> compile time, the run time overhead of creating the tree doesn't exist,
> or traversing a tree , does not exist.
> Why do you think it makes no sense.

Because JAXB doesn't do what you think it does. Indeed it can't. It does 
not create the DOM tree at compile time. No objects of any type are ever 
created at compile time in Java. JAXB creates a tree at runtime when it 
sees the document, just as JDOM does. It may use different classes and 
parsers in the tree it creates. Indeed JAXB may create some data 
structure that is not a tree at all. But whatever it does, it does it at 
runtime.

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