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RE: Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing"

• To: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
• Subject: RE: Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing"
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:00:12 -0800
• Cc: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>,"Elliotte Harold" <elharo@m...>,<Neeraj.Bajaj@S...>,"Chris Burdess" <dog@b...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:bill.dehora@p...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 5:39 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: Michael Kay; Elliotte Harold; Neeraj.Bajaj@S...; Chris 
> Burdess; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: Re:  Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML 
> Processing"
> 
> > So given the choice of methods that take useless interfaces (since 
> > they have to cast to get anything useful) and APIs with lots of 
> > overloaded methods that support a rich set of data sources, 
> why would 
> > you think the former is better?
> 
> Because it'll be more elegant to add metadata onto Source 
> objects than continue with parametric polymorphism. It's hard 
> not to conclude a fundamental abstraction is missing when a 
> class has that many overloaded calls.

And it's hard to argue that Source is actually a useful abstraction.  


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