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Re: JAXB Philosophy

From: Ed Mooney <Ed.Mooney_at_sun.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:19:34 -0400

Hi Juan,

JAX-RPC and JAXB are useful and appropriate on both sides of a
webservices exchange: client and server.

Regards,
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Joan Antoni Farre wrote:
> Don't know whether the reason is the early time in the morning, but I have
> some philosophical concern about JAXB and JWSDP. As its name indicates,
> JWSDP looks oriented to development of server-side applications. Client
> applications would be based on J2SE and the little XML technology bundled
> in it. However, I find it could be very useful to use JAX-RPC or JAXB in
> the client side, as a direct and easy approach to interact with a web
> server. Are these technologies intended for this use? What could be the
> appropriate way to integrate JWSDP technologies (probably only a subset) in
> a client application? I mean, JWSDP default installation looks perfect for
> bundling it with an application server, but is it also good for a client
> application?
> Thank you and congratulations for the JAXB team for the great work,
>
> Juan