XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

I spent a little time this afternoon playing with Kaffe 1.10, a clean 
room Java virtual machine published under the GPL. Mostly I wanted to 
see if it could run XOM. Sadly the answer seems to be no, it can't. 

First off the bat, a couple of missing methods (addShutdownHook and 
removeShutdownHook) in java.lang.Runtime prevented the JUnit GUI 
testrunner from running. I tried running the textui for JUnit, and that 
ran.

Once I did that, there appeared to be a reflection bug that picked up a 
non-test-case as a test case, and thus reported an errorneouse failure. 
Most of the other tests passed. However, as I write this the 
EncodingTest is either stuck in an infinite loop or running very slowly.

I regret to report that Kaffe is not yet up to the task of running XOM, 
though it's tantalizingly close. :-(

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold