I use JDOM to populate a arrayList of shipping beans, then a factory to send the arraylist to any action that want shipping.
the cool think is that if you code it right, u can get you code to reload if the xml file changes (eg check the date of the xml file) give ----- Original Message ----- From: "Day, Michael-IBM/TT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:48 PM Subject: [OT] XML Configuration Files > I'm working on an application that will use a database extensively. In > order to save some database hits, I'd like to offload some smaller bits of > information into XML files. > > An example would be shipping methods. There is a limited number of shipping > methods that a company could use. I would like to define these in an XML > file during deployment. When the application starts up, I'd like all fo the > shipping methods to be loaded from the XML file into memory. By doing this, > I save the database hits everytime the application needs to access the > different shipping methods. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on an existing API that does this. I'm > sure something must be out there to assist developers that want to parse XML > configuration data for their applications. Once I have this, what is the > best way to have this information loaded on startup? I am thinking of > creating a singleton that manages the different shipping methods. Do better > methods exist? > > Thanks for any help. > > __________________________________________________ > Michael Blake Day > Nextel Communications, Inc. > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > desk: 678.966.4792 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
