You remind me of Rod Johnson... :)
I see your point - the critical part will be much shorter and I already have an asynchronous process (the timer). Furthermore I can use interfaces for the XML -> JavaBeans VO converter to abstract that away from the implementing classes. I will then rather use your method as it makes more sense.
If you are referring to PostgreSQL Replicator (pgreplicator.sourceforge.net) then yes - I know about it.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Rod Johnson?
Regards,
Adrian
:) Thought you might wonder...
He is the author of the book "J2EE Design and Development" from wrox press. He is unique in the sense that he believes much more in using those aspects of J2EE that is best suited for the job (implying performance/scalability/maintainability) rather than taking the sun approach (Pet Store) of doing things very theoretically correct but impractically slow in performance and hugely complex to implement.
You just reminded me of him as you like the lean and mean way of doing things. I prefer that as well...