Re: Java and XML

["Kevin O'Neill Stoll" <kevinostoll@yahoo.com>]

Yes you would. I asked the same question but the difference is that the
presentation developer would only be matching an XML document with an XSL-T
stylesheet. As opposed to writing "complex" code to loop through each of the
collection method that represent a different piece of data.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Cordell" <roncordell@attbi.com>
To: <ajug-members@www.ajug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: Java and XML


> On Tuesday 19 February 2002 10:41 am, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> > 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,
> >
> > Kevin O'Neill Stoll
> > http://kevinstoll.org/
> > (770) 569-7251
>
> Wouldn't you have to instantiate an XML parser to then access the nodes
that
> you were interested in for the collection? Unless there was some specific
> advantage to doing it with XML, why do it that way?
>
> -ronc


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