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I sounds as if you are inventing your own RPC mechanism. There are
plenty of good ones around already. Why not use SOAP?

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: arajvanshi@h... [mailto:arajvanshi@h...] 
> Sent: 11 July 2002 08:51
> To: michael.h.kay@n...
> Cc: 'xml-dev'
> Subject: RE:  HashMap in an XML document
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> Hi Michael,
> 
>     The purpose of my application is to invoke an API on the 
> server, and the user is going to tell which API at runtime.  
> I have to pass this information regarding the API (which 
> includes APINAME, APIRETURNTYPE, PARAMETERS and some 
> transaction attributes) in an XML document. On the server 
> side, the parser parses the information and invokes the 
> appropriate API using Reflection(java.lang.reflect.*).
>    The problem is that some APIs have complex arguments like 
> Vector, HashMap which needs to be passed using XML. If I have 
> to extract each and every element of HashMap to form a new 
> element in the XML doc, it will be a big overhead. I wanted 
> to ask whether we can directly pass an Object (like HashMap, 
> Vector) in an XML document by some means.
> 
> Regards
> Ashish Rajvanshi
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> "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...> on 07/11/2002 01:10:48 PM
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> Please respond to michael.h.kay@n...
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> To:   Ashish Rajvanshi/HSS@HSS, "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
> cc:
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> Subject:  RE:  HashMap in an XML document
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> > Hi All,
> >  Can anyone tell me how to pass a java.util.HashMap in an XML 
> > document.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ashish Rajvanshi
> 
> You'll have to explain a lot more carefully what you mean. Do 
> you mean perhaps that you have some data in a java HashMap 
> and you want to represent the same data in XML?
> 
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
> home: Michael.H.Kay@n...
> work: Michael.Kay@s...
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