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Journal Article - The Trail Guide - The three rules of using XML and Java
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Dirk Schreckmann
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The just-released September 2004 edition of The JavaRanch Journal includes an article by Paul Wheaton, "The Trail Guide - The three rules of using XML and Java".
Please use this thread to comment on and discuss the article.
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Daniel Mayer
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Joined: Sep 09, 2004
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Personally, I prefer Dom4J over JDom. It seems to have the more complete API, while still coming natural to a Java developer.
And I see one drawback using an XML-serializer like XStream - The XML structure is only implicitely defined by the object structure, so by refactoring your design, you can accidentally become incompatible to prior versions.
For things like configuration files I therefore prefer to define the XML structure via a schema and let the java classes be generated from it; for example using JAXB.
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Gregg Bolinger
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Paul, thanks for mentioning XStream. I'll be able to put this to good use. Oh wait, we aren't suppose to use XML are we? 
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Vladas Razas
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Haha, I fell at rule 2 and 3. Using regular DOM... But it was worth it because I better understood XML now. Had to deal with whitespace text nodes etc myself 
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