You might want to take a look at XMLBeans: http://xmlbeans.apache.org
-- Dennis R. Sherman Endeavor Information Systems 847-227-2976 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.endinfosys.com -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie: Using Axis for serializing/deserializing only Stuart Barlow wrote: > Axis is complete overkill for this job. > You will increase complexity many times over and get the job done slower. Well, I sort of aware of that, but I'd like to know exactly how this can be done to talk with customers. > Do you want to use the XML to interact with web services? Sort of. It's a system for exposing Cobol apps as web services. But for this particular task our customers want to be able to: Cobol record -> Java object -> XML -> their proprietary system and their proprietary system -> XML -> Java object -> Cobol record -- Oleg Tkachenko http://blog.tkachenko.com Multiconn Technologies, Israel
