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The Java framework feels like a low level .NET framework.

.NET has a lot of convenience functions that make doing common things easy, and the more I work with Java, the more I yearn for that.

Today’s example: I want to load some XML and extract some text from a node.

.NET code:

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XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

doc.Load("myFile.xml");

XmlNode node = doc.SelectNode("/item/description");

string description = node.InnerText;

The equivalent Java code:

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DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();

Document doc = builder.parse("myFile.xml);

XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();

Node node = (Node)xpath.evaluate("/item/description", doc, XPathConstants.NODE);

String description = node.getTextContent();

Which of these two APIs would you rather work with?

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