Through the company I work for, I have been set up as a contributing author to the JOX project hosted by SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jox/. We are using XML to transport request and response data between our presentation tier written in VB.NET and our Middle Tier which is written in J2EE. I know it's not the best of the options, but that is the way things were designed and I have to live with that. My recent task has been to switch out the previous XML serializer with this new one (JOX). Being that the authors seem to have abandoned it, at least have not worked on it in a while, and that we needed a few changes made to make it work properly for us, we decided to talk to them about becoming contributing authors. They granted us that role and now we can give back to the open source community, as well as get the JOX project up to date and add many new features. Once I get a viable build together and committed to CVS, I'll list out the changes we made here as well as on the SF site.
Another reason for this post is to provide myself with a link to the JavaDoc HOWTO site since I will need to make sure the JavaDoc comments are up to date for JOX as well as correct. I've never been good about commenting my code, but that will all have to change now I guess.
Posted by doug at March 31, 2005 07:22 PM | TrackBackEh, don't bother commenting. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
Posted by: john at April 4, 2005 12:11 AMAnother blog looking for java and XML integration with some good links, as well as a plug for JOX, can be found here.
Posted by: doug at April 11, 2005 04:37 PM