Installing JDOM and dom4j

This section will briefly cover downloading and installing the JDOM and dom4j APIs. Doing so will enable you to follow along with the examples in this chapter.

JDOM

The JDOM site is found at http://www.jdom.org/.

This book uses beta version 7 of JDOM. Once you have downloaded the JDOM zip file and installed the software, place the JDOM.jar file into your Tomcat's lib directory.

dom4j

The dom4j site is found at http://www.dom4j.org/.

This book uses version 1.1 of dom4j. Once you have downloaded the dom4j zip file and installed the software, place the dom4j.jar file into your Tomcat's lib directory. Of course, it should be noted that dom4j comes with several JAR files. Since we already have JAXP and Xerces installed to ...

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