Application Uses of O-X
	Ÿ Similar to how direct JDBC coding is not desirable in all cases, an object level interface is valuable for building applications accessing XML – Web Services – EIS data sources using JCA resource adapters Ÿ XML based adapters will outgrow those using proprietary data formats – Data integration Ÿ Integrated format is XML – mid-tier data synthesis – Application integration Ÿ Where programmatic business processing is required on data moving between applications