The Easiest and Most Efficient Way to Modify XML Documents   01 Apr 2008 02:16 GMT
The easiest most and most efficient way to update XML documents is to use non-extractive parsers (such as VTD-XML) because they support incremental content update.
Source: DevX

Build an Entity Resolver to Redirect a SAX Parser   01 Apr 2008 01:29 GMT
This tip shows you how to bulid an entity resolver to "change" a public indentifier into a system identifier.
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Extending OpenPTK, the User Provisioning Toolkit   27 Mar 2008 04:00 GMT
Project Open Provisioning ToolKit (OpenPTK) is as an open source user provisioning toolkit exposing APIs, web services, HTML taglibs, and JSR-168 portlets with user self-service and administration examples. OpenPTK hides the implementation differences between different user stores, allowing developers to use multiple stores with a common API. Masoud Kalali shows how to use and extend the toolkit.
Source: Java.net

Setting Up JBoss Tools for Seam Application Development   26 Mar 2008 05:03 GMT
The Seam Web Framework joins the worlds of JavaServer Faces and EJB 3.0, and JBoss Tools is a suite of Eclipse plugins that make developing Seam applications easy and productive.
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Validating an XML Document   25 Mar 2008 01:59 GMT
This tip shows you how to use the DOMImplementationLS and DOMConfiguration classes to validate an XML document only if an XML Schema is present.
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Build Your First Grails Project: A Grails-Powered Blog   20 Mar 2008 04:19 GMT
Need to clear out the clutter of your Java web development? Say hello to coding by convention with Grails.
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Synchronizing Properties with Beans Binding (JSR 295)   20 Mar 2008 04:00 GMT
The idea of setting up listener relationships between your GUI models, views, and controllers is simple enough, but grinding the same "glue" code dozens or even hundreds of times is wasteful and error-prone. JSR-295, Beans Binding, offers relief from the drudgery. In this article, John O'Conner shows how it works and what it can do for you.
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Translucent and Shaped Swing Windows   18 Mar 2008 04:00 GMT
The new "Consumer JDK," Java SE 6 Update N, offers desktop developers the ability to set per-pixel translucency on windows, which opens up a wide variety of possibilities for translucent and shaped windows previously only available to native applications. Kirill Grouchnikov shows how far these features can take you.
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Create a Color Using "&lt<" and "|" Operators   17 Mar 2008 23:33 GMT
This tip shows you how to create the RED color using the "<<" and "|" operators. After that, the color is used to fill a rectangle.
Source: DevX

Java Mobility Podcast 39: CQME, Conformance and Quality and jtharness projects in the M&E Community   14 Mar 2008 04:00 GMT
Kevin Looney, Brian Kurotsuchi, and Mikhail Gorshenev talk about CQME and jtharness projects and their uses as a TCK testing tool and the possibility of using it for testing applications.
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