What Is JDOM?
JDOM is an open source, tree-based, pure Java API for parsing, creating, manipulating, and serializing XML documents. Brett McLaughlin and Jason Hunter invented it in spring 2000. I asked Jason how it happened, and here is what he told me:
In the early months of 2000, in a time before I knew Brett, I found myself working with XML for a contract project and growing increasingly frustrated with DOM as a way to solve my problems. My mind had an expectation for what a Java-based XML manipulation API would look like. DOM wasn't anything like it.
In the spring of 2000, I attended Brett's talk on DOM and SAX at the O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java. I was hoping he'd share with me the DOM philosophy so I could see why reality wasn't ...
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