IM server - store user data in files or directory?

Is there a document that explains the advantages and disadvantages of storing user data in files vs the directory? Is one recommended above the other for new installations?

JesseThompson wrote:
Is there a document that explains the advantages and disadvantages of storing user data in files vs the directory? AFAIK no such document exists
Is one recommended above the other for new installations?
This depends upon your deployment

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HI Friends,
Please let me know
How to store xml data into file in xml format through java program?
thanks......
can discuss further at messenger.....
Avanish Kumar Singh
Software Engineer,
Samsung India Development Center,
Bangalore--560001.
[email protected]

Hi i need to write the data from an XML file to a Microsoft SQL SErver database!
i got a piece of code from the net which allows me to parse th file:
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import org.xml.sax.helpers.*;
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import java.lang.*;
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<Machine>
<Hostname> IPCServer </Hostname>
<HostID> 80c04499 </HostID>
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<EthernetAddress> 09:00:30:C1:34:90 </EthernetAddress>
<IPAddress> 149.51.23.140 </IPAddress>
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