XML Development with Java™ 2

Benefits of XML

Much of the fervor over XML is due to the fact that XML provides numerous benefits over our current system of proprietary data formats. Of course, this XML revolution would not have been possible if hardware advances had not given us enough performance to process and translate data into an application-independent format. This is a similar case to the success of an interpreted language such as Java. Hardware advances have given us the luxury of a universal interpreted language that performs on par with compiled languages of the past. Without such hardware advances, these technologies would have languished in the tar pits of inefficiency and immaturity. Both XML and Java require ubiquity to be successful and to progress beyond a ...