Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] JDom dependancy

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

Joe Emenaker wrote:
> It's so much of an improvement that some are expecting that JDOM will 
> eventually be incorporated into J2SE 
> (http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=93). So, part of why I decided 
> to include jdom.jar is because I expect that, someday, we'll be able 
> to remove it when JDOM (or some other object-oriented XML suite) 
> becomes part of the standard J2SE implementation.
I stand corrected. It turns out that the author of JDOM has withdrawn 
their bid to get JDOM included in J2SE 
(http://www.jdom.org/pipermail/jdom-interest/2004-September/014191.html).

This leaves me with four courses of action (in increasing preference):

1 - Leave jdom.jar in JSL. (This is the option I like least)
2 - Convert my code in JSL that does XML stuff to use JAXP
3 - Get the source code for JDOM and actually include just the parts 
that I need to use into the actual JSL source tree (license permitting).
4 - Write my own classes that behave like JDOM (ie, they would have an 
object-oriented front-end while using the yucky JAXP-DOM classes for the 
actual work).

I'll have to take another look at JAXP and see how distasteful it is and 
then I'll decide.

- Joe