Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "erk" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: wise words Date: 18 May 2006 12:38:30 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1147981110.839041.14190@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <5S3bg.9464$A26.236139@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.201.180.136 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1147981116 11652 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2006 19:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:38:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=170.201.180.136; posting-account=D5on_Q0AAACQwqv81pYDfkXI2sLkx8Xr Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:39744 I might replace "good enough" with "prevalent enough" in the case of XML. Having used Java interfaces like JDBC, JMS, JNDI, and countless others (including JNI, interfacing to "native" - typically C - libraries), there is little to compare to the horrors of XML libraries and parser confusion (DOM, JDOM, JAXB, Xalan, Xerces, blah blah). There's no indication that XML and its offspring "technologies" are "good enough" - yet no immediate sign of them going away. Unless, of course, "good enough" applies to job security, in which case: explanation complete. The horror... the horror... - erk "Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?" - Edsger W. Dijkstra