public class Main
extends Object

A simple program to demonstrate some of the functionality of the Commons Digester module.

This code will parse the provided "example.xml" file to build a tree of java objects, then cause those objects to print out their values to demonstrate that the input file has been processed correctly. The input file represents a catalog of items in a library.

As with all code, there are many ways of achieving the same goal; the solution here is only one possible implementation.

Very verbose comments are included here, as this class is intended as a tutorial; if you look closely at method "addRules", you will see that the amount of code required to use the Digester is actually quite low.

Usage: java Main example.xml