Java and XML

What’s Next?

By now we have managed to touch on the major subjects concerning using XML within Java code. Besides being able to create, parse, style, transform, constrain, and validate XML, we have looked at using XML within a publishing framework, using XML for remote procedure calls, storing configuration information within XML documents, and now creating XML “on the fly” from Java code. This rounds out our XML and Java skills, and should prepare you for nearly any XML-related application programming you could be tasked with. In our next chapter, we wrap up our look at XML and this book with another look at XML Schema. Although we have discussed using XML Schema for constraining documents, we will take a look at some of the new and innovative directions XML Schema is moving in which, and how this affects using XML. Although this is slightly tangential to using XML from Java, it does bear on how XML is used in your applications.