[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] XML as an alternative to Object Serialization?
I have had an idea as a solution to a problem I have, but my problem is much more limited than this idea... One thing I need to know is if anyone is doing any work on higher-level API's for creating XML documents, DTD's etc. I can do this myself as writing an XML Formatter is a hell of a lot easier than writing an XML Parser, but nevertheless I have not seen any tools like this that I am aware of (I think MSXML might have something like that but I do not know). I just want a simple API to make method calls which spits stuff out to a java.io.OuputStream. Now my idea rests upon the power of Reflection in JDK 1.1+. I have had experience in using Reflection to auto-map Java class files and interfaces to a relational database by auto-generating SQL create scripts, and I had the idea that XML could be used as an alternative to Object Serialization for small to medium sized content. XML of course is much fatter as a persistence framework than something like Object Serialization but for web browsers and the web in general, embedding this info via XML in a page may make more sense in some circumstances, especially since you would get the added boon of your Java Object being cached on the users computer. Now doing a good implementation of this would require a bit of work, and probably the best way of doing this might involve screwing around with the Externalizable interfaces, but I just wanted to get some idea from other people as to whether or not they think that this would be a good idea, but more importantly a useful idea. I am an independent programmer, so I can work on this from time to time when my other projects are not so time consuming, but this would not be a trivial task to implement even though I have a pretty good idea of how to do it (or at least an idea of a working implementation). Considering the success that SAX has had to date in its efficiency of being moved along, I thought that this sorta thing might warrant some attention. Any comments? Tyler xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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