As a developer I want to use XML extremely easily
A few days ago I needed to parse some reports in Java application. Recently I used for such tasks built-in features, but I can say they are not very user-friendly or intuitive. And I think that there's no reason to use something strange for implementing such simple things. I'll be much better to find very cool replacement. After spending some time googling I've checked that unfortunately there were nothing satisfactory. I've even started thinking about using Scala but luckily in last-ditch attempt I've found JOOX . Really weird name, but I've found out it's abbreviation from Java Object Oriented XML... hmmm - sounds promising :) Authors described it as "simple wrapper for the org.w3c.dom package, to allow for fluent XML document creation and manipulation where DOM is required but too verbose". For me it's enough to start looking for maven artifact: org.jooq joox 1.1.0 Core element ...