Simon Kitching wrote:
It's such a shame the author of this article was not aware of ApacheI definitely *am* aware of Apache Digester, and mention it in all my talks on different approaches to working with XML in Java. Digester is a very useful tool for building structures of objects from XML. AFAIK it doesn't have any support for going in the opposite direction, though. That blocks it from consideration as a general data binding tool.
Digester.
Aside from that issue, I also consider Digester to be a much lower-level approach to working with XML than the data binding frameworks covered in the article. Digester basically supports a script-like approach to working with a parse event stream. The other mapped binding frameworks are more declarative, where you describe the relationship between XML and your objects and the framework implements that relationship. The frameworks using code generation from WXS go even further to hide the details. These build a collection of "magic" classes that are convertible to and from instance documents matching the Schema, and your code only works with the public API of these generated classes.
- Dennis
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Digester's main focus is parsing xml configuration files, but it can be used for other purposes.
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 04:54, O'Keeffe, Michael wrote:
This article at DeveloperWorks compares various tools:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-databdopt/index.html
The followup article has some performance comparisons:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-databdopt2/
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