Java Tip 138: Still parsing to generate your JavaBeans’ XML representation?

The portability and extensibility of both Java and XML make them ideal choices for the flexibility and wide availability requirements of Web applications and services. SAX (Simple API for XML), DOM (Document Object Model), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), XSLT (XSL Transformations), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), and BML (Bean Markup Language) are some of the buzzwords associated with XML. This tip brings together the benefits of Java and XML without forcing developers to understand all XML-related buzzwords.

By using Remote Method Invocation (RMI) in distributed Java application development, no low-level socket or network communication code is involved. The code remains at a higher level, leveraging its use of RMI classes. Similar gain comes with the use of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology, freeing developers from several low-level coding aspects (transaction, recovery, and activation). With this tip’s JavaBean-XML mapping component, developers don’t directly deal with XML-related APIs.

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