Re: [JXTA discuss] Question on Microsoft Patent

Actually, I have refereed to JDOM as a prior art project, but what I  
should have said was that Castor is the primary case for prior art.  
It has an initial date of March 27, 2000. Castor pretty much does  
exactly what the MS patent details both via schema and public member  
introspection. Sorry for the confusion (so many API so little time).

JDOM can be used to do the same thing, as does any programatic XML  
library like Xerces. I think I listed JDOM initially because I wrote  
introspection code using it, but that was in 2002/3. I later moved to  
Castor which does the job for you.

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Sean McCandless wrote:

> Michel,
> They applied for the patent in July 2001.  JDOM has been around  
> since April 2000 though.
>
> Sean
>
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:16 +0200, Michel Polet wrote:
>> Dear Bernard,
>>
>> I am not a lawyer, but I think prior art should have prevented  
>> Microsoft to
>> have receveid the patent in the first place.
>>
>> I don't know when they applied for the patent.
>>
>> But I know this: O'Reilly published the following book in May 2002:
>> "Java & XML Data Binding" by Brett McLaughlin, ISBN 0-596-00278-5.
>>
>> In his book, Brett McLaughlin mentions many XML specificaions,  
>> technologies
>> and XML serialization deserializaion based on Sun and others work.
>>
>> Obviously, that book could not have been written before the  
>> various items
>> described or mentioned came into existence.
>>
>> If you cannot find the book, I can hand it to Sun Belgium who  
>> could arrange
>> to
>> have it delivered to you via your internal mail.
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bernard Traversat [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 03:23 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [JXTA discuss] Question on Microsoft Patent
>>
>>
>>
>> Sean McCandless wrote:
>> > Microsoft was issued a patent today on XML object  
>> serialization.  Since
>> > JXTA uses XML how are we going to deal with this?
>> Sean,
>>
>> Thanks for pointing out this, and we will look into it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> B.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Article on patent:
>> > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/ 
>> 0,39020384,39200357,00.htm
>> >
>> > Patent document:
>> >
>> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? 
>> Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1
>> &u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,898,604.WKU.&OS=PN/ 
>> 6,898,604&RS=P
>> N/6,898,604
>> >
>> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser? 
>> Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=
>> 1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,898,604.WKU.&OS=PN/ 
>> 6,898,604&RS=
>> PN/6,898,604>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sean
>>
>>
>>
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