NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta Blogging Contest
NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta is now available to download and preview. We’re pretty excited about some of the great new features, but we want to know what you think. Download the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta 1 and check it out for yourself. After you have a chance to test the Beta, we want you to [...]
Mapping Java Objects and XML Documents using JAXB – Java 6.0
JAXB (Java API for XML Binding) technology which was included as part of JWSDP (Java Web Services Developer Pack) before, is now included with the Mustang Distribution. Simply put, it is a Mapping Technology for Java and XML Documents. Using JAXB, one can Generate XML Documents from Java Objects and also they can Construct Java [...]
Streaming API for XML – Java 6.0
Streaming API for XML, simply called StaX, is an API for reading and writing XML Documents. Why need another XML Parsing API when we already have SAX (Simple API for XML Parsing) and DOM (Document Object Model)? Both SAX and DOM parsers have their own advantages and disadvantages and StaX provides a solution for the [...]
Pluggable Annotation Processing API – Java 6.0
Annotations have been there in the Java World from Java 5.0. Java Annotations are a result of the JSR 175 which aimed in providing a Meta-Data Facility to the Java Programming Language. It can be greatly used by the Build-time Tools and Run-time Environments to do a bunch of useful tasks like Code Generation, Validation [...]
Introduction to Java 6.0 New Features, Part–I
This article covers the various new features of Java 6, also known as Mustang. This article assumes that readers have sufficient knowledge over the concepts and terminologies in Java 5.0. For more information on Java 5.0, readers can vist the resources available in javabeat here. Though there is no significant changes at the Language Level, [...]
What is new in Java 6.0 Collections API?
In this article Vidua Sagar will write about the new Collections APIs introduced in Java 6.0. Mustang has few interesting changes in the Collections APIs, one amoung them is the Deque. Deque is used for the Bi-Directional traversal. It has different implementations including BlockingDeque,ArrayDeque,etc. He will talk about the Deque and its various implementation, also [...]
The Java 6.0 Compiler API
One of the cool features available in Java 6.0 (Mustang) is the ‘Java Compiler API’. This API is a result of the JSR (Java Specification Request) 199 which proposes that there must be a standard way to compile java source files. The result of the JSR is the new ‘Java Compiler API’ and one can [...]
Articles on Java 6.0
I have collected list of articles on Java 6.0.Resources and Articles for Java 6.0 (Mustang)
