Some personal wishes (since you asked)<div><ul><li>Do the resolver!! </li><li>One-stop API for parsing XML or JSON (perhaps MongoDB BSON?)</li><li>Lay to rest the lingering ambiguity as to whether JDOM (compared to W3C DOM) has a performance cost. Performance measurements, space and/or time.</li>
</ul></div><div>On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Rolf Lear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdom@tuis.net" target="_blank">jdom@tuis.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all.<br>
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So 2.0.1 has settled in nicely, with no apparent issues. I have also taken some 'JDOM down-time' to just get some of my life in order.... and to avoid some burn-out. I'm now at a cross-roads of sorts....<br>
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My personal goal when I got involved with JDOM 2.x was to 'make JDOM current again', and I believe it is now (again) the 'best in class' in-memory XML model for Java.<br>
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So, what is the 'cross-roads'? JDOM 2.x is now just an up to date 1.x version, with a more consistent code base, and which implements the modern Java concepts. But, should JDOM now settle in to a maintenance-only mode again until the next major development cycle in another 5 years? Or should JDOM again 'pioneer' in some new directions that make XML processing easier.<br>
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I know I have my eyes on the 'Resolver' aspect of XML parsing, and I am going to start playing with that some more, but maybe there are other interesting things JDOM could be doing.<br>
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So, this is a call for any 'wish-list' items that you want to have available in JDOM.<br>
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Is there anything else JDOM can do for you?<br>
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I think it would be reasonable to consider a JDOM 2.1 'branch' which extends existing JDOM functionality in the next 6 months or so, if there is a feature that would be nice to have, and people with an interest in building it....<br>
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Rolf<br>
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