[Simple-support] Beginner Questions

[Travis R. <tr...@gm...>]

Hi,

I just came across your project and it looks very interesting indeed. A few
questions/comments:

- Why is the @Root required? It looks like you have to always use it which
means that it's not really useful. Unless I'm missing something.
- I also noticed that if you don't use the @Attribute or @Element, then the
field is not serialized. It would be a lot more user friendly to include all
fields, probably defaulting to @Element, and the use the annotations to
exclude the ones you don't want with something similar to JPA's @Transient
or change the way it's serialized with @Attribute.

I have to admit that as soon as I saw that you must have all these
annotations, my interest decreased. It seems to me the default could work
out of the box with no annotations like XStream and you only add annotations
to modify that default behaviour. Rather than the current behaviour of doing
nothing unless you add annotations.

Just my 2 cents.

Travis