Simon Kitching wrote:
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 12:04, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
I definitely *am* aware of Apache Digester, and mention it in all my
talks on different approaches to working with XML in Java.
Amazing who hangs out on these lists :-)
You never know who's listening... ;-)
I should say that I enjoyed your article (read it quite a while ago),
and am intending to check out some of the tools it evaluates. Thanks for
writing it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I didn't pick up from your article that you were only considering
two-way tools.
I guess I should have stated upfront that (at least for me) "data
binding" implies bidirectional conversion.
Digester itself is indeed one-way. Apache Betwixt is built "on top of"
digester, and is two-way. I don't know much about it though.
I'll add a mention of Betwixt to my presentations on XML in Java. I
still think Digester/Betwixt is in a different class from the more
general data binding approaches, though. That doesn't mean they're not
great solutions for some classes of requirements, they're just not as
powerful as the other ones I cover in the comparison articles. I think
XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder from JDK 1.4 is a similar case (nice because it's
automatic for beans and included in the standard lib, but with no
control over the XML representation).
- Dennis
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