JDOM
A large portion of DOM's complexity and unintuitiveness derives from the fact that it's not actually a Java API. DOM is defined in the Interface Definition Language (IDL) from the Object Management Group (OMG) and then compiled to Java. This means that DOM must use interfaces and factory methods instead of classes and constructors. DOM classes must always cater to the lowest common denominator of programming languages. For example, there are no overloaded methods in DOM because JavaScript doesn't support method overloading. It doesn't matter that in Java and C++ a lot of the DOM could be expressed more concisely with overloaded methods.
JDOM is a more intuitive, tree-based API designed just for Java. It makes no compromises to support other ...
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