XML and Java technology: XML persistence in three flavors. You have to store your XML somewhere XML is a great data format—as evidenced by, among other things, an entire zone of IBM developerWorks that is dedicated to the subject.
And more often that not in 2007, talking about XML means talking about Web services, or converting between XML and Java™ objects, or perhaps reading an XML configuration file, or even using an XML-formatted database format instead of a relational or an object-oriented one. XML Namespaces. James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> The XML Namespaces Recommendation seems to be causing a great deal of confusion.
This note attempts an alternative explanation of the mechanism described in the Recommendation which I hope will be less confusing. XML DOM Tutorial. Java bookmarks. Eclipse.