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New Articles
 o Using the Digester Component

Featured Blogs
 o PicoContainer Bsh Configuration
 o Performance Tuning J2EE and MySQL Applications

Book Chapters & Reviews
 o Flex Integration with J2EE
 o XDoclet In Action

TheServerSide Java Symposium 2004
 o Announcing the TSSJS Wiki

Key J2EE Industry News Headlines
 Some key headlines:
 o DevelopMentor and TMC announce Community and Education Alliance
 o Tapestry 3.0 Final Release

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Using the Digester Component

By Harshad Oak

Harshad Oak looks at the Jakarta Commons Digester component, which helps to reduce the complexity involved in parsing XML. He shows you how Digester works on the simple concept of element matching patterns and how you can define rules in Java code as well as in a separate XML file. You'll also see some examples that reflect common XML parsing requirements.

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PicoContainer Bsh Configuration

By Alex Winston

Alex Winston has written about his travels into the world of IoC containers, AOP frameworks, and MVC systems. He discusses his findings with configuration using Bsh versus XML.

Performance Tuning J2EE and MySQL Applications

By Matt Raible

Matt Raible attended Mark Matthew's "Performance Tuning J2EE Applications deployed on MySQL" at the MySQL Conference. He saw some interesting points, so he wrote them up for us all to see.

Flex Integration with J2EE

By Steven Webster & Alistair McLeod

Flex Integration with J2EE, excerpted from the book 'Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex', by Steven Webster and Alistair McLeod, looks at the data service features of Macromedia Flex and the MXML markup language that allow business logic deployed within a J2EE application server to be integrated with a rich-client interface delivered to the browser using MXML markup.

XDoclet In Action

By Dion Almaer

XDoclet In Action, by Craig Walls and Norman Richards introduces you to XDoclet and its uses and serves as a resource on code generation with this popular open source tool. The book shows you how to use XDoclet with EJBs, Servlets, JMX, and other technologies. Dion Almaer provides an indepth review and synopsis of this book, and offers his perspective on the various topics covered.

Announcing TheServerSide Java Symposium Wiki

Check out the latest news from the TheServerSide Java Symposium, read blogs, post questions and comments to speakers, and converse with attendees. Experience the TheServerSide Java Symposium by visiting the Wiki at http://wiki.theserverside.com/symposium.

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Want to improve JDBC performance? See Part 1 of: Performance Tips for the Data Tier DataDirect Technologies' John Goodson explains how to optimize system performance when selecting & using database metadata.

DevelopMentor and TMC announce Community and Education Alliance
Training leader DevelopMentor (DM) and The Middleware Company have announced a community and training alliance. As a result, DM's community assets including over 150 Java and .NET white papers, tools, sample code, and tutorials will be hosted exclusively on TheServerSide Communities; while The Middleware Company's best selling training courses will now be offered only by DevelopMentor.

Sun Announces Free J2EE 1.4 Application Verification Kit
Sun has announced the availability of a free J2EE 1.4 Application Verification Kit (AVK). The new J2EE AVK tests for portability and the correct use of J2EE APIs across J2EE technology-compatible application servers. TheServerSide used the prior version to test our application, to help make sure that it would run on the various cluster members.

Sun renews its commitment to JDO with version 2.0
Sun recently submitted a new JSR to the JCP to develop JDO 2.0, and renewed its charter membership in JDOCentral.com. JDO 2.0 will address many of the issues that have been raised against JDO 1.0.

Tapestry 3.0 Final Release
The final 3.0 release of the Tapestry presentation framework is now available. New features in this release include implicit components, dynamic lookup of page/component specifications, automatic creation of properties via bytecode enhancement, and improved client- and server-side form input validation.

Apache Velocity 1.4 Released
The Apache Velocity development team has released version 1.4 of the Velocity templating engine. Changes include: New (and better) introspection code, Pluggable introspection, and of course lots of little fixes.

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