If a bean has a get method for a nested bean, nested child elements are generated. Figure 2 shows a ContactInfo bean object, its class, and the XML document generated by the toXML() method invocation.

Sun Microsystems last week released the specification for its Java Beans object model, which it hopes will boost the prospects for Java by competing head-on with Microsoft's ActiveX standard.

Most available Java tools start with an object-oriented approach and work down to the data, losing some of the benefits of XML along the way, he asserted. ''With XML Beans,'' Martinez said, ''you ...

Sun has released version 6 of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), along with version 3 of the GlassFish application server and the open source NetBeans 6.8 development environment ...