Articles

Axis2: The Next Generation of Apache Web Services
Apache's Axis2 employs profound lessons learned from its popular predecessor, offering the developer vastly improved XML parsing along with an extensible core, pluggable data binding, and more. In this article, S. W. Eran Chinthaka offers an overview of what's new in Axis2, the "next generation" of this popular Web services SOAP stack. Sep. 7, 2006

Introduction to StAX
Tree- and event-based XML parsing, like SAX and DOM respectively, force the developer to make problematic tradeoffs of performance and code clarity. JSR-173 offers the Streaming API for XML, StAX, which allows the client much more control and a more sensible approach to XML parsing. Eran Chinthaka has our introduction to StAX. Jul. 20, 2006

Introducing AXIOM: The Axis Object Model
XML parsing often offers a Hobson's Choice of implementations: get events during the parse (and lose the parsed structure), or get the whole structure (and wait for the entire stream to be parsed before you can have any of it). Apache Axis 2 is using a new object model, AXIOM, that offers a different way to think about XML parsing. S. W. Eran Chinthaka looks at how it works. May. 10, 2005