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Have I contributed enough bits to
this forum that I can ask for some
in return?
i.e. would somebody (perhaps the
author of "Capturing the state
of Distributed Systems in XML" himself) please
research "Coins" a bit and tell me whether
I should spend some serious time investigating
it? I looked briefly, and it didn't seem
too far fetched.
(last time I sent a "please review"
message, I got some pretty good clues.
FoRK works pretty well as a PICS
label burea/SOAP service.
But I don't know what my cluon balance
in this forum is lately. Am I allowed
to go into debt?)
-- Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/--------------46DE708866625067B47C81 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline
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>Date: 21-06-98 >Source: InfoWorld >Subject: Two-faced Coins catching on > >A new programming paradigm called Coins is gaining momentum with developers >as a way to deliver JavaBeans using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) >without the need for Java serialization. > >Coins have two faces: an XML element in persistent form and a JavaBean >instance in run-time form. > >"Coins harvest the benefits of XML for programming," said Bill la Forge, >the developer who minted Coin and the founder of JXML, in Boston. > >Traditionally, a JavaBean object is encoded -- or serialized -- in a binary >form and then decoded and processed by the system that wants to run the >JavaBean. With Coins, the object is sent as text in XML syntax to the other >machine, and that machine converts it into an object, which is presumably >faster. > >"Parsing text takes much less overhead than deserializing an object," said >Joshua Lucas, a Web consultant in Cambridge, Mass. "I think XML is going to >be Java's killer app. It will let you do things Java couldn't do before." > >One analyst gave this marriage of XML and Java his blessing. > >"This is an excellent use of XML," said JP Morgenthal, president of >NC.Focus, in Hewlett, N.Y. "We need to represent Java objects to a much >larger non-Java world. XML-based persistence provides that." > >Another developer predicted the end result will be more work for programmers. > >Todd Blanchard, senior systems architect at Polygon Network, in Golden, >Colo., said Coins require additional code generation, and the resulting >file is larger than the serialized Java version. > >"It's a heavyweight kind of solution and adds work for the file >programmer," Blanchard said. > >More information on Coins can be found at http://www.jxml.com. >
Regards.
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