What’s Next?
By now you should start to feel you could use XML in a variety of ways, as our topical chapters give you some practical applications of XML. The next chapter continues the focus on XML in the real world by looking at XML for configurations. Enterprise JavaBeans are using XML for EJB deployment descriptors files, many server products are using XML for configuration files, and XML is coming into its own as a format for configuration data. We will look at why this trend has started, and examine how to use XML for storing data purely for application use and not for transferal between applications. We also spend time discussing why databases and directory servers are not going away anytime soon, and how to ensure you use XML wisely, but not in inappropriate situations.
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