Re: comparison between BCEL and ASM

On 5/3/05, Eugene Kuleshov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Henri,
> 
>    I'm not sure what else you need from ASM's DOM. It is sufficient
> enough for the purpose. It may not provide a complete type/opcode
> safety, but it is more lightweight from a memory point of view.

The SAX/DOM metaphor had been at the heart of a thread discussing
whether BCEL had technical reasons to be used rather than ASM.   After
Eric's email in which he points out that both libraries can do DOM and
SAX style APIs, but that the difference is which one is on top, I'm
wondering what reasons the ASM guys would give to use BCEL instead of
ASM, or whether ASM felt they would be a complete replacement for
BCEL's feature-set sometime in the future.

Ideally I'd result in a "When to use ASM, when to use BCEL and when to
use SERP" style of document. Would be nice for the BCEL site I think.

Hen