Re: Java and XML

[<mattsmith13@mindspring.com>]

Kevin,

If you are running java on each tier it will be much faster to pass a collection than an Xml string.  If you passed an Xml string you would have the overhead of creating a parser and parsing the document for each method call.

thanks
Matt
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Kevin O'Neill Stoll <kevinostoll@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Got a question about Java and XML:
 
    Let's say you are interacting 
with some sort of Session bean and the method you are going to access is going 
to return a collection. It seems to me that you could do this just as easily by 
returning an XML string to the client. The problem that I am having is that I 
can't find anyone who supports this idea, via examples or in technical articles, 
so it makes me wonder if I am wrong but I just don't know it yet :P
 
 
    As well, I spoke to a VB 
developer friend of mine and they use XML to pass a method parameters. He said 
this was extremely useful because if he wants to add a parameter to a public 
method that he does not have to break his binary compatibility. Once again, this 
sounds great for Java but I have not been able to find any examples in how-to's 
or technical articles.
 
 
    I'm interested in hearing some 
feedback on the up's and down's of using XML to send parameters and return 
collections or lists. As well as, where I might find some examples of how 
someone else has implemented it.
 
> Thank you,
 
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