Java properties have been a staple of Java development for many years. Even today, Java properties are used in popular frameworks and tools such as the Spring Framework and Ant .

With the new OpenXML format, there is the promise of an clean and efficient way to manipulate Office documents via XML. But with a 6000+ page spec, finding the exact nodes one needs to manipulate ...

No I haven't tried running large XML files against the SAX parser code I've written. I think I'll try running the code against the file and see what the performance is.

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...

Both makefiles and Ant build files are external DSLs. In the case of Ant, the XML representation is processed by the ant utility using an XML parser.