Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

I am new to XML+Java and I am trying to develop an application that will both read and write to an XML file. After reading some tutorials, I decided that jaxp, sax, and org.w3c.dom.* are rather low-level and very unfriendly.

After a cursory web search, I came to the conclusion (please correct me if I am wrong) that JDOM and DOM4J are the most easy-to-use free APIs. So I would like to ask which one of the two (or any other API) is the "best"? With "best" I mean larger user base, better documentation, more features, less bugs, active development community (i.e. if a bug gets discovered, it will be fixed). I don't want to start building my application, just to realise 6 months later that the API I've chosen is very limited.

Your experience is much appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to reply.