Question

classical way to handle XML in java is really lengthy and scary.
For this purpose i made my own class which can return me result without giving me more detail like,

myXML mx=new myXML("filename");
:
mx.getAll("node name");
mx.getFirst("node name");
:

I had completed it 80%. But unfortunately, i had lost it in PC crash.

is there any jar under GPL or apache license which provides facility to read & write XML in simplest way?

Answer 1

JDOM is simple API for parsing, creating, manipulating, and serializing XML documents in Java. API’s you mentioned in your question are supported by JDOM (Other than many more useful API’s).

Checkout JDOM documentation/book chapter here for more reading:

http://www.jdom.org/downloads/docs.html

http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch14.html

Following are lines from http://www.jdom.org/docs/oracle/jdom-part1.pdf

So what’s the point of JDOM (Java
Document Object Model), and why do
developers need it? JDOM is an open
source library for Java-optimized XML
data manipulations. Although it’s
similar to the World Wide Web
Consortium’s (W3C) DOM, it’s an
alternative document object model that
was not built on DOM or modeled after
DOM. The main difference is that while
DOM was created to be language-neutral
and initially used for JavaScript
manipulation of HTML pages, JDOM was
created to be Java-specific and
thereby take advantage of Java’s
features, including method
overloading, collections, reflection,
and familiar programming idioms. For
Java programmers, JDOM tends to feel
more natural and “right.”