[jdom-interest] does jdom perform well ?

[Philipp Gröschler]

biglaughing schrieb:
> Hi,
> It is very easy to manipulate XML using JDOM.But,I have just read a
> document :
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-injava/index.html
> 
> that document is written in 2001. I want to know whether JDOM performs
> well.I want to use org.jdom.Document to be my middle-container of XML
> document.I do need performence very much.
> 
> any suggestion is welcome :P
> 
> waiting for reply

Since that document refers to version 0.7beta, and at present we're at 
version 1.0, I wouldn't give much to the performance measures taken in 
this comparison. Generally, the versions compared there aren't really up 
to date (article is dated Sep 2001).

Having said this, my personal experience during the development process 
of JDOM was, that many parts of a program which include XML processing 
code, aren't really fast. And I think that's it what most 
implementations have in common. I also realized, that much of the 
performance issues could be solved by replacing the parser or 
transformer through testing which one behaves best. It mostly depends on 
what you're doing with your XML. There are many packages out there, 
which were designed for a special purpose and high performance.

Maybe you could give us an insight in what you intend to do with your 
code, that would help a lot in choosing the right tools.

So long,

Philipp