15. MyISERN 1.0

For this assignment we researched JAXB and wrote a program to output the XML data to the console.

Link to project: http://code.google.com/p/myisern-1-silver/

Lessons Learned:

JAXB and XML - An earlier program I wrote involved parsing XML data. I ended up reading the file manually and parsing the data stream. Had I known about this, I probably would have used this instead. The library that comes by default with Java didn't seem adequate at the time, though - this was about two years ago.

Group Software Development - It was actually a pretty good experience. Regarding software development in general, though, it sometimes feels like more of a disadvantage than an advantage - in many cases, if there was a design choice, if I were working on my own I would go ahead with a decision, but once the group factor comes in, it becomes an issue to consult the other group members before coming to a decision. The advantage, though, comes in being able to proofread each other's work - as I mentioned in a previous entry, it is difficult to hold a knife to your own work, but easy to do it to another person's.

Anything else - Again, this is a trivial assignment that ended up being not-so-trivial. If you look at our code, you'll see why ^^