JDOM

We want to provide a solution for using XML from Java that is as simple as Java itself.

There is no compelling reason for a Java API to manipulate XML to be complex, tricky, unintuitive, or a pain in the neck. JDOM^TM is both Java-centric and Java-optimized. It behaves like Java, it uses Java collections, it is completely natural API for current Java developers, and it provides a low-cost entry point for using XML.

While JDOM interoperates well with existing standards such as the Simple API for XML (SAX) and the Document Object Model (DOM), it is not an abstraction layer or enhancement to those APIs. Rather, it provides a robust, light-weight means of reading and writing XML data without the complex and memory-consumptive options that current API offerings provide.

• The Xerces Java Parser
• XMLConfigReader - XML Config Reader
• XMLBeans
• dom4j
• StAX - The Streaming API for XML
• NUX - Efficient and Powerful XML Processing Made Easy
• Xalan-Java
• JVoiceXML
• JaxMe
• JOX - Linking Java Beans and XML With Ease
• Apache Crimson
• NunniMJAX
• Digester
• XStream - a tool to serialize objects to XML
• jConfig
• JiBX: Binding XML to Java Code
• XOM - a new XML object model
• kXML - a small XML pull parser
• Skaringa - an API for Java and XML language binding
• XP - an XML Parser in Java
• VTD-XML
• Woodstox - the Fast XML-processor
• NanoXML
• Piccolo XML Parser for Java
• XmlIO - XML IO