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Let's look at a simple scenario. The business function is to report all accounts for a given customer. The data exchanged between the client and server side will be Customer and AccountReport. Let's assume that the business objects are modeled using XML schema and the client side will talk to the server side over Web Service using Axis2. The client program decides to use SDO to represent the business data while the server side prefers to use JAXB.
In this case, there are three data formats involved: SDO, JAXB and AXIOM (The AXIS2 XML Infoset) and all of them come from the same model in the following XSD type definitions:
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