The "reintroduction of the Java? Desktop" underscored this year's JavaOne conference. A renewed effort on Swing and GUI development doesn't come as welcome news to those of you who swore off Swing as too slow, too hard to use, or too ugly. Well, if you haven't worked with Swing lately, you'll be glad to hear that many of these problems have disappeared. Swing has been reworked to perform better and to take better advantage of the Java 2D API. The Swing developers have improved the look and feel support in 1.4 and even more so in the recently released 5.0. Swing is back and better than ever before.

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Working with XML from Java is a pretty rich topic; multiple APIs are available, and many of these make working with XML as easy as reading lines from a text document. Tree-based APIs like DOM present an in-memory XML structure that is optimal for GUIs and editors, and stream-based APIs like SAX are great for high-performance applications that only need to get at a document's data. In this series of tips, I walk you through the use of XML from Java, starting with the basics. Along the way, you'll learn lots of tricks that many of the pros don't even know about, so stick around even if you already have some XML experience.

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