Alex in an embedded system you may only have a small prom available to boot from. Specifically, you may want to ditch the 1 meg for an XML parser. You may also have a small amount of memory and XML parsers are known for being memory pigs (which is fine in a normal server).
Dain,
I'd make the argument that any embedded system that needed to ditch an XML parser probably has no business running a J2EE stack. *
Fwiw, the answer to this problem is to eliminate implmentation specific descriptors where possible. To paraphrase jwz - some people, when confronted with a vendor specific J2EE descriptor think “I know, I’ll use a deployment tool.” Now they have two problems.
Bill de hÓra
* [It's possible btw, to make small footprint and fast XML parsers (such as aelfred or piccolo). I have no idea why a number of open source ones insist on piling on the cruft, but they do.]
