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Mike Sickler
Mike Sickler

Reputation: 34451

Should I still be using JDOM with Java 5 or 6?

I've been using JDOM for general XML parsing for a long time, but get the feeling that there must be something better, or at least more lightweight, for Java 5 or 6.

There's nothing wrong with the JDOM API, but I don't like having to include Xerces with my deployments. Is there a more lightweight alternative, if all I want to do is read in an XML file or write one out?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5710

Answers (8)

kgrad
kgrad

Reputation: 4792

There was recently a fork of JDOM for java 5 called coffeeDOM. You should check it out.

Upvotes: 2

skaffman
skaffman

Reputation: 403501

The best lightweight alternative is, in my opinion, XOM, but JDOM is still a very good API, and I see no reason to replace it.

It doesn't have a dependency on Xerces, though (at least, it doesn't need the Apache Xerces distro, it works alongside the Xerces that's packaged into the JRE).

Upvotes: 6

Zorkus
Zorkus

Reputation: 484

I would like to think JAXP is a good choise for you. It's standard, included in JDK, it provides clear interface and allows to hook up any implementations.. If all what you need in is to read and write not very large and overcomplicated xml files, JAXP DOM api embedded in JDK will cover you requirements.

Upvotes: 0

Jesper
Jesper

Reputation: 206846

Use one of the XML APIs that come standard with Java, so that you don't have to include any third-party libraries.

XML in the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) 6

Upvotes: 0

tomtom
tomtom

Reputation: 144

JDOM is very good and simple. There has been many new ways to parse XML after release of JDOM, but those has have different focus than simplicity. JAXB makes things simple in some cases when you have well known XML document has your schema does not get updated daily basis. New push parsers are very good and even mandatory for very large XML files (hundreds of MBs). Speed benefit for SAX parser can be ten fold.

Upvotes: 0

KitsuneYMG
KitsuneYMG

Reputation: 12901

I've used the javax.xml.stream package (XMLStreamReader/XMLStreamWriter) to read and write XML using xml pull/push techniques. It's worked for me so far.

Upvotes: 3

Adamski
Adamski

Reputation: 54705

You should check out Commons Digester (see the answer I've given here). It provides a very lightweight mechanism for parsing XML.

Upvotes: 0

David Rabinowitz
David Rabinowitz

Reputation: 30448

We use JAXB - it generates the classes based on the schema. You can generate your files without a schema, and just annotate how you want the xml to be.

Upvotes: 2

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