THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

The JDOM API

DOM is too complicated to suit many programmers.

Since it is a general API, it does not use special Java features - for example, existing collection classes are ignored

JDOM is designed to be simple and Java-specific.

JDOM (v1.0beta10) is a small (152K) library, since it is used on top of either DOM or SAX.
- a full XML parser is complex, dealing with encodings, namespaces, and entities

It shares the simple view of XML trees presented in these slides.