http://blog.stringtree.org Stringtree Development News Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:21:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few months ago I started a new blog as somewhere to record general links and discussion of wider software development and other issues. As time has progressed, that blog has become very busy and a virtual centre for my blogging activity, leaving little time to manage this one. I ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2008/10/01/merging-of-blogs/ I'm cross. Very cross. Cross with Sun for releasing a new version of Java which shatters both backward- and forward- compatibility. Cross enough that I cannot see any sensible way of moving my software to Java 6 in the near future. It all started with an innocuous question in a comment ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2008/09/23/java-6-breaks-jdbc/ A major goal of the Stringtree software project has always been to be as compatible as possible with all the software people are using for their Java development. Naturally that also includes whatever Java version is being used. For a long time I interpreted this goal as implying that all Stringtree ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2008/09/20/is-it-time-for-java-5/ Someone just pointed out that the light-weight XML parser included in Stringtree did not handle explicit CDATA blocks. The version in SVN now has provisional support for this. If you need a simple and fast parser for textual data, then this should be all you need. For XML documents containing opaque ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2008/01/31/slight-improvement-to-stringtree-xml-parser/ I have experimented with Maven a few times, but never been particularly impressed. Recently, however, one of my users has been bugging me to make the Stringtree and Mojasef classes and sources available in a Maven-style repository, for easier integration with Maven (or Maven-like) build tools and workflows. So I ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2008/01/07/stringtree-maven-repository/ This post is the first of a series describing the use and implementation of the Stringtree HTTP Client. Recently I have been working with systems which talk to each other using REST/HTTP. Providing services and resources is pretty simple using Mojasef, but accessing such resources and consuming such services (in client ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2008/01/07/a-simple-http-client-part-1-overview/ Finally, I have got to a point where I reckon Mojasef is nearing a proper numbered stable release. To celebrate this I have updated the version number in the Mojasef source code to 2.0.b1 and made a downloadable release (source and jar) available at Sourceforge. I strongly encourage anyone interested ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2007/07/20/mojasef-goes-into-beta-at-last/ Along with the latest release of Stringtree I have released a new Stringtree JSON. The major change is the provision of an extra version of JSONReader.read which takes a CharacterIterator to allow reading of JSON from within a larger body of text. I've also had another try at ensuring that it is ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2007/07/20/stringtree-json-209/ It's been a month or so, so it's time for another release of Stringtree. Changes in this release include: fixed some broken EasyTemplater constructors added switchable prefixing of attributes in XMLReader added switchable forcing all values to lists in XMLReader added storing cdata from mixed elements as "text()" in XMLReader added extra "read" methods to ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2007/07/20/stringtree-209/ I have just been informed by my hosting provider that they have had to disable the Java support on the server running the example Friki. Apparently this is due to too many applications from different users clogging up the stderr logs. I won't be able to re-enable Friki until I ... http://blog.stringtree.org/2007/07/18/demo-friki-currently-out-of-action/