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Sun has recently posted the second proposed final draft of Java
Specification Request 172, J2ME Web Services Specification:
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/first/jsr172/index2.html
This draft is much improved in terms of XML conformance. It no longer
appears to subset XML. However, it does subset SAX in several very
incompatible ways. In particular,
* Sun is using the confusing, underspecified SAXParser and
SAXParserFactory instead of the much cleaner, better specified
XMLReader and XMLReaderFactory.
* Sun has removed the ContentHandler interface and replaced it with
the DefaultHandler adapter class.
There are lots of other interfaces and classes that have been
removed. However, these two strike me as the most objectionable. This
subset is going to make it difficult to port standard SAX code to
J2ME environments. It's also going to encourage developers to
continue use the seriously confusing and broken (e.g. non-namespace
aware by default) SAXParser instead of the better XMLReader.
This draft is tantalizingly close to something useful, but there's
still work that remains to be done. Comments can be sent to
jsr-172-comments@sun.com
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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