[jdom-interest] Re: JDOM -- threads?

[Edelson, Justin]

> and what about DOM, SAX API?
You can't build documents with SAX. DOM implementations generally have
the same thread-safety caveats as JDOM.

> what are best alternatives for creating XML?

Just my opinion, but I don't think there's one answer to this question.
It really depends on your specifics. In one corner, you have DOM, JDOM,
dom4j, and others that let you build a generic object tree in memory and
then serialize it. In another corner you have JAXB, Castor, and other
binding libraries that let you build a schema-specific object tree in
memory and then serialize it. And in the third corner, you could just
write lines to text to a stream. Although I think most would rather
avoid this, for giant documents it's probably the only reasonable
choice. And in the fourth corner are other tools/techniques -
GroovyMarkup, Betwixt, JSP, Ajax toolkits, etc.



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[mailto:jdom-interest-bounces at jdom.org] On Behalf Of Frances
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:33 PM
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Subject: [jdom-interest] Re: JDOM -- threads?

Frances wrote:
> just read in jdom.org that JDOM is not thread-safe..  what does this 
> mean exactly? (don't know much about threads..)  that JDOM does not 
> include thread APIs, or that you can't do threads AT ALL with it?  For

> my project I have to be able to set threads...
> 
> (can I use thread-related classes from system API to make it
thread-safe?)

and what about DOM, SAX API?  what are best alternatives for creating 
XML? (just Java I/O?  JavaScript?  any better ideas?)  thanks...

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