> gbak?

External process - somehow Java people do not like it.

> Or the dreaded services API (the admin server doesn't take it away).

If that API going to stay - fine with me, then I shup up.

> Let me see if I understand this. You want to require every service
> module to be able to parse XML just in case you want to call it
> outside the infrastructure it was designed for?
>
> May I point out that if you're going to be calling the service
> modules, it would be a lot easier for you to build the XML parse
> tree directly (class Element in config) and skip the XML step
> altogether? Then neither of you have to parse XML.

Then application developer has to include and link to our library to
build that tree.

Anyway, if Services API to make backup is going to stay, I'm ok with
this proposal.

Roman