Comments on: JAXB 2.0 doesn’t look so cool http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/ A weblog for Keith Lea and the Joust Project. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Phillip Tornroth http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-2223 Wed, 03 May 2006 23:38:03 +0000 http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-2223 I've had the same issue with just about every piece of XML parsing code I've written, DOM/SAX/JAXB/Castor.. they're all obnoxious. It occured to me this week that the most freedom I've experienced peeling information out of XML has been when writing XSL documents, and that was because of XPath. I hooked up the JAXP XPath API's yesterday and wrote some code... I am sooo much more pleased with it than I've been with anything else. It's essentially still DOM code, but instead of walking the entire tree, you end up searching to get down the Node or NodeSet you want to deal with. For small parsing jobs, it's definitely the way I'm going from now on. I can send code if anyone's curious, but there are some examples floating about. I’ve had the same issue with just about every piece of XML parsing code I’ve written, DOM/SAX/JAXB/Castor.. they’re all obnoxious. It occured to me this week that the most freedom I’ve experienced peeling information out of XML has been when writing XSL documents, and that was because of XPath. I hooked up the JAXP XPath API’s yesterday and wrote some code… I am sooo much more pleased with it than I’ve been with anything else. It’s essentially still DOM code, but instead of walking the entire tree, you end up searching to get down the Node or NodeSet you want to deal with. For small parsing jobs, it’s definitely the way I’m going from now on. I can send code if anyone’s curious, but there are some examples floating about.

]]> by: Xin Zhao http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1942 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:04:10 +0000 http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1942 Try Liquid XML. Try Liquid XML.

]]> by: Jos Dirksen http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1941 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:22:24 +0000 http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1941 The tutorial you referenced doesn't seem to use jaxb 2.0, but JAXB 1.0.5. From the release notes of JAXB2.0 apparently the number of classes generated is significantly reduced and the jars you need to include also seem to made smaller. You might try that version before going back to dom... The tutorial you referenced doesn’t seem to use jaxb 2.0, but JAXB 1.0.5. From the release notes of JAXB2.0 apparently the number of classes generated is significantly reduced and the jars you need to include also seem to made smaller.

You might try that version before going back to dom…

]]> by: Doug http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1939 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:08:24 +0000 http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1939 Take a look at the Castor project. It's much simpler to learn and use than JAXB and still quite powerful. Worth a look. There are a couple of other libraries that are similar whose names I can't remember. One is at Apache, XML Beans I think. Doug Take a look at the Castor project. It’s much simpler to learn and use than JAXB and still quite powerful. Worth a look.

There are a couple of other libraries that are similar whose names I can’t remember. One is at Apache, XML Beans I think.

Doug

]]> by: Charlie Hayes http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1938 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:40:58 +0000 http://joust.kano.net/weblog/archive/2006/03/13/jaxb-20-doesnt-look-so-cool/#comment-1938 Wow, thats crazy! 45 classes is insane. Wow, thats crazy! 45 classes is insane.

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