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I'm pretty new to Web Services in java. I was starting on a project where one is already implemented, and there are lots of references to org.apache.axiom.om namespace.

What does the om stands for ?

Stephane Rolland
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  • http://ws.apache.org/axiom/apidocs/org/apache/axiom/om/package-summary.html – Brian Roach Mar 28 '12 at 16:32
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    and google answered http://ws.apache.org/axiom/apidocs/org/apache/axiom/om/package-summary.html and given all the text that was given, it really didn't catch my eyes. – Stephane Rolland Mar 28 '12 at 16:47
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    Yeah, the doc link doesn't tell you what "om" stands for. I Googled and checked several docs and couldn't figure it out. I figured it was just Apache's mantra. – Hot Licks Mar 28 '12 at 16:50
  • @mre -- How do you "infer" that "OM" means "Object Model"?? I would have guessed "Object Management". – Hot Licks Mar 28 '12 at 16:51
  • given the context of its use, i inferred "Object Model" given "DOM", which stands for "Document Object Model". – mre Mar 28 '12 at 16:53

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I guess it stands for Object Model, since it's written all around everywhere in Axiom home page, even in the title.

I guess some imagination could be used in this situation..

Jack
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  • I am imaginative, but I write all my namespaces with entire words. Explicit is better than implicit. (Zen of Python). – Stephane Rolland Mar 28 '12 at 16:43
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    @Stephane So I assume someone should tell Guido to rename the `re` package to `regularexpression`? There's also a `weakref`, `sched`, `os` - well I could go on. Sometimes brevity is important too ;) – Voo Mar 28 '12 at 16:45
  • yep you are right ;-), and it's is admitted (in the books i have read at least) that the python module names are to much fussy. – Stephane Rolland Mar 28 '12 at 16:49
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It stands for Object Model:

http://ws.apache.org/axiom/apidocs/org/apache/axiom/om/OMXMLBuilderFactory.html

Look under createOMBuilder() - the definition is:

Create an object model builder that reads a plain XML document from the provided input stream with the default parser configuration defined by StAXParserConfiguration.DEFAULT.

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