... Gee, I've worked on some pretty huge (bloated) projects and have never seen anything even close to a GB of JARs. 10-20MB once in a a while, but that's a 2...
... On the other hand, if you don't control both ends of the stream or you just don't want to write a parser yourself, XML can be just fine. -- Esse Quam...
False dichotomy. XML benefits from network effects, to be sure. If interop is the absolutely, positively most important thing for an application, by all means...
The problem is the dependency checkin over time. We use an online CVS service of which we pay for our total usage. Continually building and checking in jars...
Darn, I cut off Jon's reply. Sorry, Jon. ... you just ... False dichotomy. XML benefits from network effects, to be sure. If interop is the absolutely,...
Actually, Only use XML if you need hierarchial interop...otherwise use straight key-value...ie, LNAME|Foster,FNAME|Bob,CITY|Googlesville Mica ... From:...
... Along with escaping commas, pipes, and field keywords in the separated data...these things are often more complicated than they look by the time you get...
Jon, if the ftp server support the MLST command, you could infer the server tz by comparing the output of DIR and MLST commands: ftp> dir index.html 227...
Personally, I've never used XPath stand-alone. I always used it within an XSLT transformation sheet. So that would probably be my first instinct to grab for....
Ok, I feel the need to spew luddite curmudgeonly venom today: I hate java annotations! Is it just me, or are annotations crap? Seems to me like just another ...
No taker here - I love 'em like Monty Python loves spam! Isn't it simpler to have an in-line annotation rather than requiring an external file to wire things...
Yeah, I agree. I love the capabilities annotations provide, and additionally I think it is a pretty neat syntax (better than, say, @javadoc style stuff ala...
... I'm with you in the idea that they are, like sadly so much in our industry, abused. The new JUnit use of them is an example that I think I wrote about here...
Never wanted to use them in Java - but did. Same for C# - although it does seem a lot more abused in C# - almost like VB-turned-C# programmers decided it was a...
Off topic, but I think ya'll are the type who might be interested in TiVo. I bought an HD TiVo over the weekend. It's a scaled down Series 3 which runs for 299...
... It's 20 hours, but there's an eSata port on the back. I'm not sure what eSata is or how TiVo uses it, but I'm hoping it's an easy way to up hard drive...
... You got me looking at drives again. I couldn't find that drive, but I did find a 500gb sata drive for $99. About eleven years ago the cost a $1 per ...
I don't know how many of you speak other languages than english, but I really must share this. Yesterday I was looking for some java related stuff (http...
... Na, the source code is the design, http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design.html, and how much data and meta-data do you put in your...
Question on juggling- When all stories for an iteration are well into being coded, let's say you are doing uat and qa, and issues are discovered - the user...
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