Thanks; I came across betwixt in my searches also, and am in process of evaluating it. I'll post back some feedback when I have it.
As a side note I've had a couple personal emails on what I am trying to do - it will be part of a messaging system / enterprise service bus architecture and the idea is to be able to easily send arbitrary bean-data onto the bus as an xml message. XStream works great in a test environment, but the error handling necessity comes from the need to be able to do updates to data classes without flushing the entire message queue. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Bubna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:32 AM To: Velocity Users List Subject: Re: Off topic: a lightweight JavaBeans<=>xml library with error handling? i've no idea if this is really what you are looking for, but since you guys haven't mentioned it, i'll make sure you are aware of it... http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/betwixt/ and no, i've never used it either. but it seems to me that the combination of this and digester (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/ ...which i have used, and i believe betwixt can automatically generate rules for) would be quite "fault tolerant". On 11/2/05, Scott Edward Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah... abebooks. Do you guys support OS X yet? :-) > > I am also looking for some kind of XML data binding for Java. The two > big guns are Sun's JAXB and Apache's XMLBeans. Both rely on schemas > and don't strike me as being particularly "lightweight". It wouldn't > be that difficult to roll your own or repurpose open source to add the > features you want. Here... > > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-1999/jw-03-beans-p2.html > > ...is an old article demonstrating such an application (complete with > source code). The 1.5 J2SE also has a simple bean reader/writer. You > could look at the source code for that as well. > > -S > > > On Nov 2, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Peter Locke wrote: > > > There are a lot of smart individuals on this list and am hoping > > someone can recommend a good technology. > > > > Essentially I need a lightweight library that can do simple > > bean<->xml conversions without mappings, but handle out of bounds > > data for different versions of xml and beans. > > > > XStream http://xstream.codehaus.org/ is a perfect example of > > everything I need *except* it does not handle out of bounds data - > > for example if the xml is missing a tag or has an unexpected tag, I > > want the bean object to still be created, with the extra tag ignored > > or the property corresponding to a missing tag left at its default > > value. > > > > thanks > > > > -- > > Peter Locke > > Senior Engineer / Dev Lead > > www.abebooks.com <http://www.abebooks.com/> > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
