XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>]

--- Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2007 1:40 AM, Tatu Saloranta
> <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > While this is certainly possible, the question is,
why
> > bother? Serialization to textual xml can be done
...
> I'm not going to defend Java Serialisation overhead,
...
> But there are a lot of places where it gets used,
such as saving
> session state in an app server, or chatting between
processes in
> EJB-land. Sometimes the things you send over dont
...

Ah ok. Yes, this does make sense -- so sometimes it
would be
convenient (and  even necessary) to be able to
serialize xom
documents and/or nodes. So basically it'd be for
inter-operability reasons.

-+ Tatu +-



      
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