Being a Java Developer with web services background, I like XML parsing; XML fitts into enterprise Java applications nicely.
Alternatively, feedback to the Ajaxian reveals that an AJAX developer prefers JSON. So the Ajaxian have published a tutorial on processing JSON with jQuery as well. Using JSON in a JavaScript environment is sensible, because JSON is formed as a JavaScript prototype structure.
Also interesting in the last couple of days on Ajaxian is this post on optimizing Ajax code. I tend to agree with some of the comments, I don’t think the try/catch model in JavaScript is particularly good. But that doesn’t really matter - the article has some good meaningful links:
