• To: "xml-dev" <xml-dev@l...>,"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Subject: RE: What is XML For?
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:58:00 +0200
• Cc: "Brendan Macmillan" <bren@m...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <003801c27bef$190bd040$fe193044@tbp1>

>Wrapping it up, I would say that if your main interest is in interchanging
>programming objects, xml is probably not a wonderful choice.

One approach that does work quite nicely is that of JSX [1], which allows
Java serialization of objects (instances) to XML in a line or so of code.
Interesting, it seems there has been a big takeup of this tool by people
wishing to maintain configuration information between different versions of
an app. As XML it's relatively simple to modify data saved from version x to
allow loading into version x++, something that can't be done with Java's own
serialization. It's also worth noting that the objects persisted in this
fashion can be passed to non-Java systems.

Cheeers,
Danny.

[1] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bren/JSX/

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