evolutionnext

I am attending the Colorado Software Summit in Keystone, Colorado. I went to the presentation by Mark Reinhold titled "Tigers, Mustangs, and Dolphins, oh my". He gave information about what will be included in the Mustang release of java. One item on the slate is Language-Level XML. This is going to be gross, take a look at this code sample.

void addUser(Element element, String user, String password) {
   element.add(
              <account>
              <user>{user}</user>
              <password>{password}</password>
              </account>);
}

I did type this correctly. There will be XML literals in the language.

A long time ago when JSP was introduced you could include java scriptlets into the JSP page. Then some smart people decided to ask why are we mixing HTML with java code? Then java web develeopers started working with MVC web frameworks which separated everything and that worked well. Now the powers that be, want to bring XML in java and it is my opinion that something like this will fall flat on it's face just the way that that JSP scriptlets are admonished today.

void addUser(Element element, String user, String password) {
    element.add(
        account(
            user(user),
            password(password)
        )
    );
}