[jdom-interest] BEA's XMLBeans

Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Fri Mar 7 09:09:48 PST 2003


>Has anyone had a chance to look at BEA's XMLBeans package? They 
>announced XMLBeans at their developer conference this week. It seems 
>to me that XMLBeans is another competitor to JDOM, or am I missing 
>something?
>

You're missing something. :_) XMLBeans is more of a data binding 
approach like JAXB than a generic XML tool like JDOM. It depends on 
schemas for example. It's not designed for arbitrary XML operations.
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