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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:56:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [vote] XML Parsing
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From: Dain Sundstrom <dain@coredevelopers.net>
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I think we should just use Digester directly.  Betwixt looks 
interesting but I don't see why we need it.  I wrote some digester code 
the handle mbean description files in about 20 minutes (without knowing 
anything about Digester).

-dain

On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 08:00 AM, James Strachan wrote:

> +1
>
> with a minor change. If we're gonna be hand-coding POJOs ourselves 
> then there's less reason to use XMLBeans - so I suggest we use 
> something like betwixt rather than XMLBeans to do the parsing / 
> converting to XML. Thats probably gonna be easier to use and have a 
> smaller dependencies in terms of jars. Then we just need to follow 
> some simple naming conventions in the POJOs to get the XML marshalling 
> for free. e.g.
>
> public class WebApp {
>
> 	public void addServlet() {
> 		...
> 	}
>
> 	public List getServlets() {
> 		...
> 	}
>
> }
>
> public class Servlet {
> 	public String getName() {..}
> 	public void setName(String name) {...}
> }