[geeks] Upper Memory Limit - Java

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> Date: 2008/01/31 Thu AM 10:05:27 CST
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Upper Memory Limit - Java
>
>> On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> My guess - every night they send cumulative monthly or quarterly EDI
>>> transactions (invoices/etc) that include every invoice/order for the
>>> month/quarter - luckilly, the software just purges the duplicate
>>> invoices/orders, so nothing is ever lost.
>>
>> Why would they pollute EDI with XML?
>
> (Because it's two, TWO buzzwords in one! ;^)
>
> Beats me, but that is what we were told (large XML files and he's  
> working with
> the EDI group)

When I used to work with EDI files, they were all files of fixed  
length records.

Easy to parse, and very efficient to process.

XML is hard to parse and highly inefficient.

I love progress...

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com