Hibernate querying results format

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I have a web service that provides queries functionality using hibernate. A query can return multiple results - each results contains multiple parameters.

The question is: how should I return the result:

Can serialize everything into 1 string nd client will parse it.
I know there is a possibility to return Array of strings or Array of complex types.

Which is better for performance - there might be lots of user doing request etc.

If better using the complex types - can give an example of using it - or a link to some info.

Thanks Yoav

JB Nizet · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-28 09:36:24Z

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Web services generally return results in a platform-independent, but structured way. XML and JSON are two frequent choices.

There are plenty of apis in Java to generate XML and JSON. Google for them. I like using JAXB for XML. Some APIs take JAXB-annotated objects and serialize them into JSON instead of XML.

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Yoav Over a year ago

it is using soap - but what is better for performance - a string or a complex type

JB Nizet Over a year ago

Make it usable and correct before thinking about making it fast. Use a complex type, which will be directly usable by your clients, rather than forcing them to implement a complex parsing algorithm. web services are slow because of the network, not because of the transmitted data.

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