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XML Parsing in a Producer-Consumer Model
Publish Date: Oct. 8, 2003
Decent APIs such as SAX have made XML parsing much easier than in the old DOM and pre-DOM days. That doesn't mean it's completely natural, though, in all circumstances. Throw XML parsing into a multithreaded application and things can get weird quickly. That's where a different approach can help. Prabu Arumugam demonstrates the producer-consumer model, which can allow multithreaded XML processing.
A Custom JSP Tag Library for Dynamic Menus
Publish Date: Apr. 9, 2003
Customizing your web site based on user preferences can be difficult. You can go full-bore with JavaScript, or rely on some sort of plugin language or applet. Prabu Arumugam demonstrates another option for JSP users--a tag library that can render dynamic, hierarchical menus defined in XML or a relational database.
J2EE Form-based Authentication
Publish Date: Jun. 12, 2002
J2EE Web containers support form-based authentication mechanisms, but how do
you integrate application-based security with that in other realms? This
article explains.