From jdom at tuis.net Thu Apr 9 05:12:05 2015 From: jdom at tuis.net (Rolf Lear) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:12:05 -0400 Subject: [jdom-interest] Java 8 streaming API Message-ID: <55266C95.2090901@tuis.net> An issue has been recently raised in github which has added some impetus to my thoughts about whether JDOM 2.1 should be released with Streaming API support built in to it. The issue is a feature request that is only partly-related to streams, but there is a connection: https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/issues/145 Note that the specific feature could be solved with other tools than JDOM, like dom4j, raw SAX, etc, but a JDOM solution would be convenient. This e-mail is a poll-request: - is anyone using JDOM in Java 8 and is finding the lack of a streaming API inconvenient? - if there was a streaming API, how would you use it? - is it feasible for JDOM 2.1 to have a baseline minimum supported JRE of version 8? This would mean: 1. ongoing support for the existing backward-compatible JDOM 2.0.x code base 2. backward-compatible 2.1.x series Thoughts? Rolf