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,