Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: [xml-dev] Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225) >Thread Next - Re: [xml-dev] Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225) Re: [xml-dev] Early Draft Review: XQuery for Java (JSR 225)To: Ken North <kennorth@---------.---> Date: 7/1/2004 2:50:00 AM > Assume postText() is an API we use for HTTP POSTs. Someone decides its more > efficient to use compression instead of sending uncompressed HTML or XML across > the wire. We decide to use LZW compression and replace the postText() String > argument with a binary string or BLOB. > > How does that API change not affect the format of the data passed between the > browser (web client) and the web server? The API implementation can then uncompress. In this example it's kinda silly, but there is no *requirements* that an API expose wire protocol details. In fact, if done right, it probably shouldn't. /r$ -- Rich Salz Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html | ||||||
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