XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Jeroen van Maanen <jeroen AT entreact.com>]

I am using XOM and Nux to build a web application that uses XSLT 
transformations heavily.

Recently I tried to clean up all the stuff that was still lying around 
after redeploying the application (the application spawns a lot of 
threads so I implemented close() methods on the owners of those threads 
to stop them).

The only thread that I cannot get rid of, is the sweeper thread that is 
constructed in nux.xom.pool.Pool that clears invalid entries from all pools.

Of course it would help to move nux.jar to the common or shared 
directory of Tomcat, but I'd rather keep everything in one war file. 
Another possibility I thought of was to initialize the pool in a thread 
group that is specific to the application and use the deprecated stop() 
method to kill it. My last option is to patch nux.xom.Pool either with a 
static close() method or with a separate sweeper for each pool instance.

Any advice on which direction to take would be appreciated.

Jeroen