> In reality, sometimes folks use A, sometimes A in combination with B,
> and sometimes all of them together, for various subproblems within the
> overall application. To summarize, there seems more value in
> integrating tools with different strengths and weaknesses than in
> separating them.
In theory you are perfectly right. Each tool has strengths and
weaknesses and it would
be great to mix and match.
But unless implemented correctly this can yield to a performance
catastrophe.
Unless ALL tools are implemented to work on the same physical
representation for
XML, you'll spend all your time copying and converting the data between
various
physical formats (e..g. one consumes and produces SAX, the other one
expects a DOM and the
last one wants a JSR 173).
I've been there while in BEA.
Best regards,
Dana
