Hi, What would be a good light weight solution for this? Thanks. Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Internal recipients, Read my accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:25 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Passing xml documents between Java and a C library Don't get too carried away with some of these frameworks. JMX and the rest might sound like awesome ideas, but heavy weight is not where you necessarily want to be. Just a word of advice from someone who has done both sides of the coin on java development. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:26 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Passing xml documents between Java and a C library Thanks. This sounds helpful. We are still working out the architecture of BrailleBlaster and figuring out what Java libraries or packages we will need. We are definitely using Java 6. John On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 07:06:53PM -0500, Jay Macarty wrote: > If you are using java 6 as your platform, there is an XmL binding API > called JAX-B which you might find helpful for this. JAX-B allows you > to convert a java object into an XML string or to map an XML string to > a java object. We use this at work a lot because we are receiving text > based messages from queues and the message body is XML. > > In JAX-B you add java annotations to a java bean style data object to > tell it what the XML element and/or attribute names should be when the > object is converted to XML. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 6:52 PM > Subject: Passing xml documents between Java and a C library > > > >For the BrailleBlaster project, the editor and user interface are > >written in Java. The braille knowledge needed for translating annd > >formatting is in the C library liblouisutdml. The two communicate by > >method calls and xml documents. We would like to pass the documennts > >back and forth inn a memory buffer, if possible. However, some > >doccuments can be quite large, up to 6 megabytes. After UTDML > >(Unified Tactile Document Markup Language) has been added to them > >they can be 20 MB or more. Such large buffers seem impractical, so we > >will probably have to pass documents of that size as files. However, > >we would like to be able to pass smaller documents, say up to 100k, > >in memory. How can this best be done on the Java end? liblouisutdml > >expects xml documents in UTF-8 in an array of 8-bit charactors. > > > >Thanks, > >John > > > >-- > >John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, > >Inc. > >http://www.abilitiessoft.com > >Madison, Wisconsin USA > >Developing software for people with disabilities > > > >__________ > >View the list's information and change your settings at > >//www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind