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About Joe Walnes

I am a software engineer for Google, based in London.

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Java Open Source Programming, Wiley JSP Site Design, Wrox

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Mock Roles, not Objects
October 26 2004, Vancouver, Canada. OOPSLA'04

Personal Development Practices Map
June 24 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah. Agile Development Conference

SiteMesh.NET and ASP.NET MasterPages
May 20 2004, Bangalore, India. Bangalore .NET User Group

Mock Objects: Driving Top Down Development
March 29 2004, St Neots, UK. OT2004

Mock Objects
December 2 2003, London, UK. XP Day 3


XStream 1.1.1 released

I'm pleased to announce the release of XStream 1.1.1 - the powerful, yet easy to use Java to XML serialization library.

Some of the improvements in this release:


  • Converters can be registered with a priority, allowing more generic filters to handle classes that don't have more specific converters.

  • Converters can now access underlying HierarchicalStreamReader/Writer implementations to make implementation specific calls.

  • Improved support for classes using ObjectInputFields and ObjectInputValidation to follow the serialization specification.

  • Default ClassLoader may be changed using XStream.setClassLoader().

  • Loads of bugfixes and performance enhancements.

Full change log: http://xstream.codehaus.org/changes.html
Download: http://xstream.codehaus.org/download.html

Comments

Anjan Bacchu

Hi Joe,

Thanks.

http://bindmark.dev.java.net/current-results.html -- pls. see this link where they compare serialization frameworks. there was a recent thread on TSS about these results
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=32022.

Can you comment on that ? What do xstream users say about this benchmark ? What would make xstream the default serialization library in a java developer' toolkit ?

Thank you,

BR,
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