| Electronic Publishing with XML |
| John McKeown, Benjamin Jung |
June 27, 2001 |
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| A description of the process used in creating electronic publications
using XML and related standards. The article is based upon the methods
used to generate conference proceedings for the XML Europe 2001
conference. |
| JSP Security for Limiting Access to Application-Internal URLs |
| Jamie Jaworski |
June 27, 2001 |
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| A example of how to use XML and JSP together to build a simple multiple
page application. The article includes example code and links to the
source. |
| Principles of good GUI Design |
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| These guidelines are more geared towards client server and applet types of
applications, however, many of the guidelines can still be applied to a
web page. Many JSP and Server-Side developers concentrate on the server
side aspects of a project. This results in weak / poor client side GUI
design and practices. Remember no matter how perfect your server side Java
is, your project still fails if the user cannot use the final HTML page. |
| The gentoo.org redesign, Part 3 |
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| Since we are on the topic of GUI design. Here is an article about a site
redesign and the thoughts of the programmer working on the redesign. The
words of wisdom I liked the best are: "remember that content comes first,
layout second, and graphical embellishments a distant third. " |
| Personalize Your Website With Skins |
| Brian R.J. Heumann |
June 2001 |
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| If you are interested in offering visitors a website with a customizable
look and feel, here is a good introduction. The article demonstrates
building dynamic "skins" for a JSP site. While it might be extra work
for us developers, someone out there is sure to love the choice of Polo,
Aqua, and Brick color schemes. |
| Java Cookbook: Web Server Java: Servlets and JSP |
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| This sample chapter contains code samples on how to perform basic functionality.
For example, there is a simple example on how to process the data from an
HTML form within a servlet. Another example shows how to generate a PDF file
from a servlet. Overall the examples are fairly basic, and newer JSP and
Servlet programmers could find the examples handy. |
| Are EJB's really needed? |
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| A great discussion on the need for EJB's and how to distribute your logic
within a large application. This discussion also talks about Java stored
procedures and using object databases. It is also a debate on whether
business logic should be moved to the database or to a middle application
tier. I highly recommend this thread to application designers. |
| Some Questions about object databases |
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| While relational databases are well understood, using object databases
are not as well known. This is a quick FAQ about using object databases
which will give a high level introduction to the subject. |
| Comparing Semantic Equivalency Of XML Documents |
| Brett McLaughlin |
June 2001 |
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| This is an examination on how to compare XML documents to find out whether
they're the same. As with most of Bretts articles this is an excellent
article. Anyone working with XML files with Java of beginning to mid level
of experience will find this of interest. |
| JSP and Velocity Comparison |
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| This presents a look at JSP and gives a comparison to Velocity. It should
be noted that Jon is a co-founder to the Velocity project so he will
have a biased view towards Velocity. The article really ends up being a
long discussion on JSP's weaknesses and Velocity strengths. In other words
an attitude against JSP exists within the article. However, it is a
good article to read as knowing the weaknesses of a product is as important
as knowing the strengths. |