You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

With JavaServer Faces 2.0, we finally see the introduction of a standard, annotation based approach to component development. No longer do your JSF applications need to maintain a long and arduous ...

Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

Sometimes it seems you spend more time manipulating XML files than you do writing Java code, so it makes sense to have one or two XML wranglers in your toolbox. In this article, Laurent Bovet gets you ...