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I’ve been using JDOM for general XML parsing for a long time, but get the feeling that there must be something better, or at least more lightweight, for Java 5 or 6.
There’s nothing wrong with the JDOM API, but I don’t like having to include Xerces with my deployments. Is there a more lightweight alternative, if all I want to do is read in an XML file or write one out?
The best lightweight alternative is, in my opinion, XOM, but JDOM is still a very good API, and I see no reason to replace it.
It doesn’t have a dependency on Xerces, though (at least, it doesn’t need the Apache Xerces distro, it works alongside the Xerces that’s packaged into the JRE).