Java Beans can now be delivered faster by sending the applets as plain text in Extensible Markup Language (XML), a programmer claims. Bill La Forge, founder of Boston-based JXML, told InfoWorld his Coins can speed Java Beans by leaving out the time- intensive Java serialization step. La Forge says his Coins have two faces. One, in XML, is persistent and the other is a Java Bean instance in runtime form. Where Java Beans are traditionally serialized as a binary to be decoded at the client end, the Coin method sends objects as text in XML syntax. The client converts it to an object faster, La Forge claims, because parsing text requires less overhead than deserializing objects.
