I guess you've never heard of JAXB? Richard Opalka wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > are you missing extremely simple but powerful configuration tool > for your (sub)project? > Are your configurations stored in XML files and you just need to read > them > and create the meta data model from it? > Then you should have a look to X2JB 2.0 ( > http://x2jb.sourceforge.net/ ) > Once you'll try it, you'll never want to return back to your old > configuration approach ;) > > Cheers, > > Richard >

We've already been down this route before Richard when Scott and Alexi built there own JAXB implementation a few years ago. I don't see why we need to do it again... If JAXB doesn't meet some esoteric need you have, become a contributor. Its open source. Richard Opalka wrote: > Hi Bill, > > we're working on J2EE server. > Everybody knows JAXB here > because it's de facto Java standard. > But for configuration purposes > I decided to write simpler tool ;) > > Just one highlight: > JAXB API: https://jaxb.dev.java.net/nonav/jaxb20-pfd/api/index.html > X2JB API: http://x2jb.sourceforge.net/api/index.html > > Both can do the same job when dealing with configurations. > > Richard > > PS: People usually write software when they're missing something out > there. > > Bill Burke wrote: >> I guess you've never heard of JAXB? >> >> Richard Opalka wrote: >>> Hi Everybody, >>> >>> are you missing extremely simple but powerful configuration tool >>> for your (sub)project? >>> Are your configurations stored in XML files and you just need to >>> read them >>> and create the meta data model from it? >>> Then you should have a look to X2JB 2.0 ( >>> http://x2jb.sourceforge.net/ ) >>> Once you'll try it, you'll never want to return back to your old >>> configuration approach ;) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Richard