Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Summary

If you’ve been doing Java EE-related development, many of the new XML-related APIs for Mustang won’t be new and different for you. All they are now is standard with Java SE. The JAXB 2.0 libraries give you Java-to-XML and XML-to-Java data bindings, the XML Digital Signature API gives you signing of your XML files, and the StAX processing gives you yet another way to parse your XML files—this time in a streaming fashion with the possibility to write and not just read the stream.

The next chapter takes you to even more familiar APIs for the Java EE developer: those related to web services. With the ever-growing popularity of web services, they aren’t just for enterprise developers anymore. Thanks to their inclusion in Java 6, you too can use them without adding any optional packages to your Java SE environment.