Summary
XML is an industry standard in communicating data between heterogeneous systems. At the same time, XML can be overkill in some cases and using it might degrade the performance of your overall application. Therefore, before you architect your system to use XML, consider why you need XML and whether any other alternatives (such as Java objects, databases) would work for you.
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