XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Steve Loughran" <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 10/08/07, Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> This recently came to my attention:
>
> >From <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/>:
>
> -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
> "J2SE 1.4.2 has begun the Sun End of Life (EOL) process. The EOL
> transition period is from Dec, 11 2006, until the General Availability
> (GA) of the next Java version, Java SE 7, currently planned for the
> summer of 2008. With this notice, customers are strongly encouraged to
> migrate to the current release, Java SE 6.

I can see some good arguments in favour of Java 5 (e.g. a better
concurrency model; in theory you can fix the proxy settings), but am
not so sure about java6. Is having a built in SOAP stack -and one that
is already obsolete- that compelling?

-steve