XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 1:29 PM -0800 2/2/04, Rich Sezov wrote:

> I can't see any way to get around this, so I don't
> think XOM is usable in EJB apps. Do you have any tips
> for getting XOM to work in an EJB? If not, would you
> please reconsider making XOM's objects serializable?

I really don't know much about EJBs myself. The XOM classes aren't 
going to be Serializable in 1.0. That's pretty firm.

If you can make a good case that this is really really necessary in 
an important use case, then I will consider it for a future version. 
However, you're going to have prove to me that there is really no 
reasonable alternative. For example, is there some reason you can't 
implement your own subclasses of the XOM classes that do implement 
Serializable? You'd probably need to override readObject and 
writeObject since you don't have access to the private data of the 
superclass, but at first glance I think it would be doable.

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