Xbeans consume and produce XML as DOM documents . As such, figure 1 is not precise. Figure 2 shows the Xbean processing more precisely. Xbeans consume and produce XML as DOM Documents. As shown in Figure 3, Xbeans are connected to each other forming a channel .
Data flow from one bean to another in a channel.
Xbeans are connected together into channels. The Xbean paradigm is a very general data flow mechanism. As described in detail later, Xbeans are functionally composable simply by supporting a couple of minimal interfaces. These DTDs represent the semantics and format of the data to be exchanged. Enterprises, however, have their data in their own databases defined by existing schema.