XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic.net>]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 12:24, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> > It is now 2007. Not only Java 5 but Java 6 have been out for a
> > while. Any chance of Elements (and any similar classes)
> > implementing the Iterable interface in the near future?
>
> No. My experience is that many, perhaps most, companies have only
> recently moved to Java 1.4, and are just starting to think about Java
> 5. I see little benefit to supporting Iterable, and huge disadvantges
> to it. Maybe in 5 years. Not now.

Yow! There's conservative, and then there's reactionary. Dragging one's 
feet on what are actually very easy upgrade paths seems 
counterproductive, to me. Sun keeps improving the JVM, and that's 
reason enough to upgrade, but the language and library improvements are 
quite worthwhile, too.

Too bad they didn't do a better job with generics...


Randall Schulz