Introduction There were 2 main XML parsing technologies few years ago. They were SAX and DOM. SAX is event-driven and the events are fired and forget along the xml parsing. Advantages: It doesn’t need to cache the whole xml document in memory and you don’t need to wait til the whole xml been parsed before [...]

Recently, I have assigned a web service project to one of my developers. To provide a guideline to choose the stack, I need to look into the solution provided by Axis and XFire again. Previously, it is no brainer in favor of XFire because Axis 1 is using DOM based parser whereas XFire is using [...]