XJ: integration of XML processing into java

  • Authors:

  • Matthew Harren;Mukund Raghavachari;Oded Shmueli;Michael G. Burke;Vivek Sarkar;Rajesh Bordawekar

  • Affiliations:

  • University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;Technion, Haifa, Israel;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The increased importance of XML as a universal data representation format has led to several proposals for enabling the development of applications that operate on XML data. These proposals range from runtime API-based interfaces to XML-based programming languages. The subject of this paper is XJ, a research language that proposes novel mechanisms for the integration of XML as a first-class construct into JavaTM. The design goals of XJ distinguish it from pastwork on integrating XML support into programming languages ---specifically, the XJ design adheres to the XML Schema and XPathstandards, and supports in-place updates of XML data thereby keeping with the imperative nature of Java. We have also built a prototype compiler for XJ, and our preliminary experimental results demonstrate that the performance of XJ programs can approach that of tradition allow level API-based interfaces, while providing a higher level of abstraction.