XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML ...

Using BEA's XML Beans service, a programmer can send the XML document definitions to BEA?s developer Web site and get prewritten Java code in return.

Because it’s so “heavy,” XML is considered to be slow when working at Web speeds. [ Related: Developers weigh JSON, security proposals for Java EE 8 ] ...

I'm always writing JSON code, loving its flexibility and forgiveness. But when I call an external service, I want to be reading XML. Does that make me a bad person?