Write JavaBeans, Then Piece Them Together with XML
I'm the kind who's sort of slow. You know, when everyone was talking about Web Services, I'm still not done learning CORBA.
So it's no surprise that I went through Don Box's blog entry on 2003-11-04T09:14:15Z about XAML (to ship some time in the future) without too big an reaction:
XAML is just an XML-based way to wire up CLR types - no more no less.
Then at the March NFJS St. Louis Symposium, I heard Bruce Tate talking about the Spring Framework, the core of which is XMLBeanFactory:
Convenience extension of DefaultListableBeanFactory that reads bean definitions from an XML document.
- Since:
- 15 April 2001
Finally this week, while reading some old code, I noticed the use of the java.beans.XMLEncoder and java.beans.XMLDecoder, part of JSR 57: Long-Term Persistence for JavaBeans. They can be used to serialize an already configured set of interrelated JavaBeans into an XML file and reconstitute the JavaBeans from the XML file.
According to this article on Sun's Swing Connection, this technology was demoed at JavaOne '99---in the last millennium!
Now, I'm just wondering, are these three technologies manifestations of the same idea?