I sounds as if you are inventing your own RPC mechanism. There are
plenty of good ones around already. Why not use SOAP?
Michael Kay
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> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] HashMap in an XML document
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> Hi Michael,
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> The purpose of my application is to invoke an API on the
> server, and the user is going to tell which API at runtime.
> I have to pass this information regarding the API (which
> includes APINAME, APIRETURNTYPE, PARAMETERS and some
> transaction attributes) in an XML document. On the server
> side, the parser parses the information and invokes the
> appropriate API using Reflection(java.lang.reflect.*).
> The problem is that some APIs have complex arguments like
> Vector, HashMap which needs to be passed using XML. If I have
> to extract each and every element of HashMap to form a new
> element in the XML doc, it will be a big overhead. I wanted
> to ask whether we can directly pass an Object (like HashMap,
> Vector) in an XML document by some means.
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> Regards
> Ashish Rajvanshi
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> "Michael Kay" <> on 07/11/2002 01:10:48 PM
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> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] HashMap in an XML document
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> > Hi All,
> > Can anyone tell me how to pass a java.util.HashMap in an XML
> > document.
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> > Regards
> > Ashish Rajvanshi
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> You'll have to explain a lot more carefully what you mean. Do
> you mean perhaps that you have some data in a java HashMap
> and you want to represent the same data in XML?
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> Michael Kay
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