October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
20h 4m
English

The J2EE Web Services APIs you have learned about in this book (JAX-RPC, SAAJ, and JAXR) will automatically handle most, if not all, of the XML processing needed to implement Web services in J2EE. At some point, however, you may find yourself in a situation where you want to write Java programs that work directly with XML documents. In such cases the standard J2EE API you can use is the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), version 1.2.
This part of the book provides a primer on JAXP 1.2 as it relates to using SAX2 and DOM 2, but JAXP is an enormous topic and far too complex to cover completely in this book (it would have required another ...