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RE: HashMap in an XML document

• To: <michael.h.kay@n...>,<arajvanshi@h...>
• Subject: RE: HashMap in an XML document
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:43:59 +0200
• Cc: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <000501c228bb$45e7a6c0$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

Hi Ashish,

Michael has a very good point re. SOAP. Re. your original question, you
might find JSX [1] interesting - easy to use Java object serialization to
XML (which can btw be put in SOAP wrappers).

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bren/JSX/tech.html

Cheers,
Danny.

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Danny Ayers
<stuff> http://www.isacat.net </stuff>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@n...]
>Sent: 11 July 2002 11:14
>To: arajvanshi@h...
>Cc: 'xml-dev'
>Subject: RE:  HashMap in an XML document
>
>
>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
>home: Michael.H.Kay@n...
>work: Michael.Kay@s...
>
>
>> -----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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...> on 07/11/2002 01:10:48 PM
>>
>> Please respond to michael.h.kay@n...
>>
>> To:   Ashish Rajvanshi/HSS@HSS, "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
>> cc:
>>
>> Subject:  RE:  HashMap in an XML document
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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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