JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

Using a Java Representation of an XML Document

One of the best features of Java is the object-oriented nature of the language. Objects are containers within which it is easy to store and then later access data. The first trick then is to get the data into the Java objects. In this book, we have shown how to use both SAX and DOM to read data into Java. However, these APIs have limitations. With SAX, you can quickly read the data, but you still need to customize and build your own special classes to handle the data. DOM provides classes to handle the data within Java; however, the data representation given in DOM is bulky and not written with an eye towards Java. This means that the next problem to solve is developing a standard way to represent ...