Thanks for the response. I have come across those solutions, however both use third party XML parsers. I'm not necessarily against it, it just seems that if I need a third party tool to consume a service, that I am not using the "preferred" way to consume services. Perhaps its more of a symptom of this framework being so new, but I thought one of the strengths of android was the ability to easily take advantage of services already offered on the web. Plus this particular example doesn't seem secure. Thanks again for your response, but I'd appreciate some additional input from you and/or others an alternate methods, or even a explanation on what is the "preferred" method of consuming services in android and why.

On Dec 30, 9:15 am, Peli <peli...@googlemail.com> wrote: