[Rails-devel] Another library to add?

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Brett & Erik,
going forward I am considering refactoring the xml initialization of 
Rails. Further I did a short comparison of the feature and syntax of a 
few xml serialization libraries for java and very quickly found one that 
pleases me.

The idea of the newer libraries add is that it is possible to align the 
java classes and xml elements, so that in effect you do not have to 
write anymore manually for parsing. Most of them use annotations to 
control this mechanism.

So my proposal is to use Simple Serialization Library
(see http://simple.sourceforge.net/home.php)

Checkout 
http://simple.sourceforge.net/download/stream/doc/tutorial/tutorial.php 
for documentation and code examples).

(Reasonable Alternatives were XStream and Jackson with XML extension and 
Protostuff, I do not like JAXB)

I am still considering to choose a more compact format (like Json or 
even a binary one like Kryo or Smile) for the planned network play.

Stefan