[jdom-interest] Checking list health

[Rolf Lear]

I am overdue on a couple of things JDOM related.

let's be clear, even though Cecil says: "And the code must be working 
perfectly :-)", given the volume of downloads, that is close to 
accurate. JDOM is currently very successful.

Here's a hit list of things which I believe should be done:

1. Year-in-review update on some of the events that have happened:
   - Eclipse inclusion
   - IBM security audit
   - tutorial sites and FAQ translations
   - Java8 bugs
   - statistics of downloads and other activities from Maven, etc.
2. Plan for Java 8 nice-to-haves
   - direct JDOM 2.1 for Java8 support of streams, other niceties
3. XML 1.1 character validation
4. XPath 2.0 (Saxon support?) - xalan has gone fairly quiet

As for feedback, the JDOM interest list has been quiet, but 
StackOverflow activity has been slow-but-steady. People are using JDOM. 
190 questions asked in 2014 for JDOM: 
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=created%3A2014+[jdom]+or+[jdom-2]

Unfortunately, a lot of the usage is still on 1.x versions, about 50% 
of questions on StackOverflow are for older versions.

Jason can maybe provide statistics for the base server downloads, but 
maven-central has seen the following (lets see if these links work... - 
if they don't I will respond later):

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=800x200&chco=326A9E&chxt=x,y&chtt=Downloads+Over+the+Last+12+Months+For+org.jdom&chxr=1,0,174133&chds=0,174133&chxs=1N*s*&chls=3&chm=o,0066FF,0,-1,10,0&chd=t:99538,103678,112177,111238,144999,135498,146573,138067,139843,135834,164626,174133&chxl=0:|Jan2014|Feb2014|Mar2014|Apr2014|May2014|Jun2014|Jul2014|Aug2014|Sep2014|Oct2014|Nov2014|Dec2014

This download activity can be presented in the form of unique ID's too:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=800x200&chco=326A9E&chxt=x,y&chtt=Unique%20IPs+Over+the+Last+12+Months+For+org.jdom:jdom&chxr=1,0,65408&chds=0,65408&chxs=1N*s*&chls=3&chm=o,0066FF,0,-1,10,0&chd=t:34454,37307,41365,39342,43554,46225,50756,48704,27497,23741,57305,65408&chxl=0:|Jan2014|Feb2014|Mar2014|Apr2014|May2014|Jun2014|Jul2014|Aug2014|Sep2014|Oct2014|Nov2014|Dec2014



Downloads broken down by versions

JDOM 1.x:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=800x200&chco=326A9E&chxt=x,y&chtt=Downloads+Over+the+Last+12+Months+For+org.jdom:jdom&chxr=1,0,156557&chds=0,156557&chxs=1N*s*&chls=3&chm=o,0066FF,0,-1,10,0&chd=t:84755,89410,96793,94324,104023,108547,124381,124479,125471,120968,147666,156557&chxl=0:|Jan2014|Feb2014|Mar2014|Apr2014|May2014|Jun2014|Jul2014|Aug2014|Sep2014|Oct2014|Nov2014|Dec2014

JDOM 2.x

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=800x200&chco=326A9E&chxt=x,y&chtt=Downloads+Over+the+Last+12+Months+For+org.jdom:jdom2&chxr=1,0,34490&chds=0,34490&chxs=1N*s*&chls=3&chm=o,0066FF,0,-1,10,0&chd=t:12473,12092,12384,13980,34490,25304,20254,11196,11922,12315,14194,15143&chxl=0:|Jan2014|Feb2014|Mar2014|Apr2014|May2014|Jun2014|Jul2014|Aug2014|Sep2014|Oct2014|Nov2014|Dec2014

With 2.0.5 specifically being:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=800x200&chco=326A9E&chxt=x,y&chtt=Downloads+Over+the+Last+12+Months+For+org.jdom:jdom2:2.0.5&chxr=1,0,32129&chds=0,32129&chxs=1N*s*&chls=3&chm=o,0066FF,0,-1,10,0&chd=t:10330,9968,9832,11321,32129,22974,17695,8217,9039,9689,11355,12529&chxl=0:|Jan2014|Feb2014|Mar2014|Apr2014|May2014|Jun2014|Jul2014|Aug2014|Sep2014|Oct2014|Nov2014|Dec2014

The bottom line is that form maven only, cumulatively, there have been 
about 200,000 downloads of JDOM 2.0.5

Rolf

On 2015-01-22 01:19, Jason Hunter wrote:
> Just wondering if the list is alive.  :)
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> -jh-
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