Learning to code with angle brackets, and loving it, can be easy if you get the perfect guide to help you. Megginson's Imperfect XML is that guide. When you are up to your ass in alligators, it is ...

Maven is a high-level, intelligent project management, build and deployment tool from the Apache project. There is nothing that Maven does that Ant cannot do. Ant gives the ultimate power and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java web frameworks popular at the turn of the century are often slagged for their reliance on ...

My last JavaWorld article “Simplify XML Processing with VTD-XML” looked at three important benefits of VTD-XML: performance, memory usage, and ease of use. VTD-XML makes XML applications not only ...

Web services are here to stay, but if you are like most software developers, you worry about the plaintext SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages being exchanged over the Web. Web services ...