Re: Java and XML

[Ron Cordell <roncordell@attbi.com>]

On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:12 am, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> 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.
>
>

In that context, then, the web server is doing the processing of the document 
using a conversion. Assuming that the trade-off would be that the session 
bean is getting an XML response from some entity or other component and 
passing that down the line to the presentation tier, then I can see where 
that would be something to consider, if you were already doing the XSL(T) 
anyway. I was thinking in the general case, though. XML is slow and a memory 
hog, so if I don't have to use it, I won't.

-ronc