XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Mike Fitzgerald" <mike AT wyeast.net>]

In my opinion, XOM is a good risk. It's not going away. It works. API
changes will be minimal. XOM is so simple that it's been worth the effort to
learn and use it. Even in the unlikely event that I would have to go back
and do something with some other API upon XOM's demise, I wouldn't get sore
over it. And if something happens to The Man with Three First Names, let's
just hope he has named a XOM maintainer in his will, so the code doesn't
fork in too many directions.

Mike

p.s. This is my opinion and does not come with a warranty. %^}

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xom-interest-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of dirk bergstrom
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:36 AM
> To: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [XOM-interest] ready for prime-time?
>
>
> i'm preparing to add code to an in-house application to write and read xml
> config files.  this will be my first foray into java xml
> programming, and my
> second use of xml.  i've read through various parts of elharo's java xml
> book online, dug about on google, etc.  i've narrowed things down to xom &
> jdom.  i expect that the xml i'll be working with will be pretty simple --
> no namespaces, limited audience, one producer, one consumer.  i have three
> weeks to get this done...
>
> xom looks very appealing, but i'm a bit leery of committing myself to
> something so new.  do y'all think that xom is ready for
> production use?  is
> the API stable?  is elharo committed to maintaining it for the next year?
> is it buggy?  will i be up the creek if elharo is hit by a bus?  any
> gotcha's i should know about?
>
> so what's the word on the street?
>
> thanks.
>
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> Dirk Bergstrom               dirk AT juniper.net
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