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Java Deployment in J2SE 5.0
There are many new deployment features and enhancements in J2SE 5.0. The common theme across all the new features and enhancements in various deployment technologies in Tiger is Ease-of-Deployment. Specifically, the primary motivation behind adding many new deployment features and enhancements is to simplify your life as a deployer. —
Stanley Ho
Unicode marches on
One of the odd little corners [...] is that Unicode has now grown beyond a 16 bit character standard, and so has lots of interesting new complications. What I always look for, though, is the new version of the Unicode book. In about 1,000 pages of technical text, one can find out amazing things about various languages and writing systems. —
Ken Arnold
Phil's Font Fixes
The bits are in: we've just integrated LCD Text support into build 39 of J2SE Mustang. You can download the latest Mustang build and check it out (we integrated this feature into build 39, which should be live now). Phil Race was hard at work over the last several months implementing this stuff. Here's what he had to say about it... —
Chet Haase
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"Pin compatible" with Xerces
In my perspective, Fast Infoset will get wide adoption only when someone develops an engine that is "pin compatible" with Xerces (or should I say JAXP complaint!). In fact, this should be able to transparently handle XML or binary XML without the application knowing the format and reuse the same, say, SAX event handlers. —
Re: Netbeans and ClearType (b39)
Unfortunately there's no way to find out if you're displaying to a CRT or LCD monitor (not even on windows), so we're relying on whatever user set in the desktop preference dialog. BTW, as I mentioned on another board, WinXP by default sets the text smoothing property to Standard, even on LCD screens —
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Introduction to JGoodies Binding
You can get a quick start guide to the java.net JGoodies project: Rob Smith's OCI article Introduction to JGoodies Binding. JGoodies "Simplifies binding Java Bean properties to UI components,
Reduces the lines of code needed to build Java UIs, [and]
Encourages separation of domain and presentation layers" The article shows how you might use Swing to display a simple UI and then introduces JGoodies and shows how the code changes.
Create test cases for Web applications
Test-driven development produces better code, and automated testing keeps you from having to repeat tests over and over by hand. The article Create test cases for Web applications introduces jWebUnit, a library for testing web applications, based on the popular HttpUnit and JUnit testing tools. " jWebUnit provides a high-level API for navigating a Web application, combined with a set of assertions for verifying the correctness of navigation via links, form entry and submission, table contents, and other typical business Web application features."
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