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Wednesday, September 4, 2002 |
Tim Bray. Tim Bray :
Many on this list will find it shocking, but lots of important XML dialects don't have any DTDs or schemas. Particularly in the application-glue space. People email back and forth some examples, they cut some code, and then everything's working and they're too busy to go back and write a schema.
[Eclectic]
Very true. I think schema languages are overrated. There seems to be this common, misguided assumption that because you're using XML you need to define schemas for everything. Documentation is often much more important.
3:44:26 PM
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java.blogs RSS feed.
James was looking for an RSS feed of all the Java and J2EE Weblogs, so I made one for your aggregatin' pleasure! (I should have thought of this idea myself - doh! ) Subscribing makes it easy to stay in touch with the latest Java blogs as they pop up.
BTW does anyone know if OPML is more suited for this? I looked but you can't 'subscribe' to an OPML feed, because it's not so much a feed as a directory? (which is not very useful for this purpose)
[rebelutionary]
Yeah! Nice work Mike - am already subscribed. It looks good.
3:14:03 PM
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SwingML is yet another rich markup language in XML like thinlets and JellySwing. Its Swing specific, uses ugly capital letters for all elements and attribute names (yuk!) and is GPL so of no use to commercial developers. Though at least you get the source code, unlike thinlets.
3:05:31 PM
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How Hot is HotSpot?. Java has never delivered its promised performance in the areas important to efficient regular expression matching. The latest version of the HotSpot JIT and VM might change all this. [Java-Channel]
Great article. Just goes to show on the Java platform, premature optimization is the root of all evil. Along a similar vain, I used to iterate through Lists (and, in the old days, Vectors) using an int counter. Now it seems, doing it the right way, using Iterator and having clean OO code is actually faster.
2:41:01 PM
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JSR-94 (I'm grumpy). It's public-review time for JSR-94 and here are my JSR-94 comments. I spent a few hours today trying to make drools compliant and it wasn't a happy experience. I'm hoping the JSR expert group is truly taking public-review comments serious and won't just push what they have through the finish line. JSR-94 is in several places under-defined while in others it seems to place too many constraints and burdens upon implementors.... [bob mcwhirter]
Go bob! I hope the expert group listen to your criticisms. Having a great open source implementation of the JSR in drools must be a good thing, it can only help adoption of the JSR (if its worth adopting). Here's hoping they listen...
8:20:56 AM
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