Introducing AXIOM: The Axis Object Model

2006-08-02

Introducing AXIOM: The Axis Object Model

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/05/10/axiom.html

Introduction

XML has become one of the major technologies used today for business integration software evolution. Lots of object models are being used today to manipulate XML in various ways. AXIOM will improve XML manipulation by providing a new lightweight object model built around pull parsing, enabling efficient and easy manipulation of XML. AXIOM is the object model for Apache Axis 2, the next generation of the Apache web services engine. AXIOM is different from existing XML object models in various ways, the major one being the way it incrementally builds the memory model of an incoming XML source.

AXIOM itself does not contain a parser and it depends on StAX for input and output.

This tutorial will first show you how to obtain AXIOM and it will then go through the fundamental features of the AXIOM architecture. You will learn how to create XML documents from scratch, using elements, attributes, element content ("texts"), and namespaces. You will see how to read and write XML files from and to disk.