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Automatically marshalling any Java object into XML (unless
it is controlled by a security manager denying access to
the com.crs.job package) is obviously the most enticing
(and main feature) of Java Object Binding. The idea of
marshalling an Object into XML is by no means orriginal.
However, JOB is the first Java API to do it without a
binding deffinition. This is done through a series of
conventions that match valid XML facets to Java Object fields.
Simple and intuative handling of XML is critical to some apps
and has been the Holy Grail of parsers since the time the
concept was concieved. JOB supports pluggable converters for marshalling and unmarshalling specific Objects to XML without entering into the some times extranious process of marshalling every field in the Object and it's fields and it's superclass's fields etc. Such a process can cause enourmous amounts of XML where really a few lines would do. For instance: A JLabel is a rather simple component, and could be marshalled to very few lines of XML. If we used the standard marshalling procedure, then we would end up with hundreds (at least) of lines of XML. This is the situation that the plugable converters are designed to prevent. |