On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 11:38 -0400, Glen Daniels wrote: > > Although an awful lot of people preach doom-and-gloom about how horrible > it is to map XML to/from objects, the fact is that a lot of people do > it, and a lot of people do it successfully, and it's NOT always a bad > idea. Yes, XML has a lot more expressive power than 3/4GLs, and that > means that not all XML will cleanly map to objects. However, many > objects of "value type" classes (such as you want to pass around in a > SOA-style application) *are* going to map pretty cleanly to XML, and > this is a very nice feature. We shouldn't dismiss it.
Absolutely not. While we've done a terrible job of marketing it, we DO have the capability (right now) to publish any "reasonable" POJO as a Web service. Is there some added function you think we can add? If so let's do it .. keeping the simple case simple and supporting the simple user is important. (Its like that setUsername()/setPassword() thing .. ;-)) Sanjiva.
