Is JDom the past?

[Pham Huy Anh]

Hi,

I am studying XML and Java and I see that both SAX&DOM are now part of standard Java (JAXP). But JDOM is not. At a glance, I notice that the functionalities of Sax, DOM & JDOM are quite the same. So what are the differences between JDOM and JAXP? Should I ignore JDOM?

Thanks

[Ulf Dittmer]

JDOM (just like other APIs like XOM and dom4j) sits on top of SAX and/or DOM. So there's nothing it can do that you can't do with just SAX/DOM. If you're happy using the DOM API, by all means, ignore those other libraries. But the reason they came about is because people didn't think too highly of DOM and were looking for a better API. The other libraries also have the advantage of being Java-centric, whereas DOM is a cross-language API; so it doesn't feel very Java-ish to use. I'm a fan of XOM, but I'd advise to check out all of them with a few sample programs, and then to use the one you most like.

[Sagar Rohankar]

JODM supports both SAX and DOM methodology of XML parsing, So I suggest learn basics of this two methods and if you want to use the simplest implementation of this, go for JDOM library

[William Brogden]

If you use JDOM you will not find it easy to use cool stuff such as XPath that is in the standard Java Library.

Bill

[Pham Huy Anh]

Thank you, guys.

I get it now. SAX&DOM are standard and JDOM is something like framework. In the future, I would choose the one which fits the problem best.