Simple and efficient XML parsing using JAXB 2.0. Update 2: Performance Numbers (see below)Update: 1.5 results (see below) One of the things I often need to do is to parse an XML document that doesn’t have a DTD or schema but has a well defined format and load the information I find into a database. Not only do I need to parse it, but I also have to be very careful when I do because generally the XML document could be arbitrarily large. Generally, these two requirements have often been at odds with one another when you needed to pick an XML parsing technology.
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Two basic approaches to asynchronous task handling are available to a Java application: application logic blocks until a task completesapplication logic is called once the task completes, this is called a nonblocking approach. To invoke an applet packaged as a JAR file : Jar « Language « Java Tutorial.