"Corey Brown" <corey_at_spectrumsoftware.net> wrote in message
news:Se02c.16672$JN2.13942_at_bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> Sure, that's why you need an AAIS (application to application
interface specification),
> otherwise how will you define the contract between one system and the
other?
>
> XML does have "some" advantanges. Here's a short list:
>
> - It's human readable. Developers can visually check on communications
between systems
> simply by taping into the communications channel. Great for
debugging too.
>
> - Senders and receivers don't have to be in perfect sync. That is,
information can be added
> at the transmitter that the receiver can simply ignore. This works
especially well in a publish
> subscribe scenario where the subscribers use the published output
in different ways.
>
> Sure it's wordy and shouldn't over extended to do things that it was
never intended to do.
> But that doesn't mean that it's not useful for certain classes of
computing problems.
Corey, may I ask you if you ever write a query in SQL?
Received on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 11:52:34 CST
