RE: [JETSPEED 2] using commons Digetser/Betwixt as an eventual re plac ement for Castor

["Weaver, Scott" <Sw...@rippe.com>]

Hi Robert,

Well, I was having trouble with betwixt mapping correctly.  Unfortunately, I could not find any good examples of a semi-complicated object model/xml mapping for betwixt.  Digester seemed quite a bit more straight forward in its "pure" form as opposed to using betwixt on top of it.  Plus I was able to find a couple of articles on Digester on the web that were very helpful.

However, if you have any experience with betwixt I would me more than happy to convert the digester version I'm working on to betwixt with your help.

Regards,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert burrell donkin [mailto:rdonkin@apache.org]
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:51 PM
> To: Jetspeed Developers List
> Subject: Re: [JETSPEED 2] using commons Digetser/Betwixt as an eventual
> replac ement for Castor
> 
> hi scott
> 
> were you thinking about using plain old digester or betwixt (which uses
> digester)?
> 
> - robert
> 
> On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 07:23 PM, Weaver, Scott wrote:
> 
> > I would like to see what everyone's opinion on starting to replace
> Castor
> > with a combination of Digester/Betwixt.  I have already been able to
> > replicate and surpass what we already have in Castor with regards to
> > marshaling the portlet.xml for deployment.  Digester offers much more
> > flexibility when mapping xml into an existing object model than Castor
> > does.  For example, we had to extend the existing object model to make
> it
> > work with Castor, with digester, this was not necessary.  I am using our
> > standard Pluto implementation classes with little or no modifications.
> > IMOHO, the learning curve for digester is MUCH smaller than Castor's.
> > Within a matter of an hour, I was able to surpass the current level of
> > compatibility we have with the Castor implementation, and that was with
> > no previous experience with Digester.  Another advantage is the size,
> > digester and betwixt are tiny compared to Castor.
> >
> > So, I would like to get everyone's blessing before I replace that Castor
> > piece with Digester for deploying the portlet.xml descriptor.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
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Re: [JETSPEED 2] using commons Digetser/Betwixt as an eventual re plac ement for Castor

[robert burrell donkin <rd...@apache.org>]

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Weaver, Scott wrote:

> Hi Robert,

hi scott

> Well, I was having trouble with betwixt mapping correctly.  Unfortunately,
>  I could not find any good examples of a semi-complicated object 
> model/xml mapping for betwixt.  Digester seemed quite a bit more straight 
> forward in its "pure" form as opposed to using betwixt on top of it.  
> Plus I was able to find a couple of articles on Digester on the web that 
> were very helpful.
>
> However, if you have any experience with betwixt I would me more than 
> happy to convert the digester version I'm working on to betwixt with your 
> help.

i work on both betwixt and digester. betwixt does some pretty cool and 
complex stuff but is still very much an alpha. i'd recommend sticking with 
digester.

if you need a generative mapper (start-from-schema rather than 
start-from-java) then you might like to look at xml-beans (but it's 
probably more complex than digester).

- robert


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