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I'll still make occasional posts if I find good Java pointers at cafe, /., or meat, but the political links are likely to be few and far between.
Last time I took a break it didn't last for very long. Let's see what happens this time.
"Java Serialization to XML (JSX) is a two-way bridge between XML and Java. It achieves this mapping by data binding between objects and XML with reflection, to create XML tags and attributes from classnames and field names. You don't need to write parsing code; you don't need to change your classes. So far, it handles: circular references, arrays of arrays, private fields, and classes without a no-arg constructor. JSX is lightweight." This looks neat. I wish this kind of serialization were part of the standard libraries. The binary serialization is better sometimes, it's smaller for one, but sometimes you want a real source file, that humans can edit. [meat]
Cafe au Lait will be moving to www.cafeaulait.org sometime soon, hosted on a Cobalt Qube. [cafe]