Designing Web Services with the J2EE™ 1.4 Platform JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies

4.4. Implementing XML-Based Applications

You must make some decisions when formulating the implementation of an XML-based application. Briefly, you have to choose the XML programming models for your application. Note that multiple programming models are available and these models may be relevant for different situations—models may be complementary or even competing. As such, your application may use different models, sometimes even in conjunction with one another. That is, you may have to combine programming models in what may be called XML processing pipelines.

You may also have to consider and address other issues. For example, you may have to determine how to resolve external entity references in a uniform way across your application regardless ...