CSS and Swing: Separating the components that make up your view makes your Swing application more flexible, robust, and maintainable. But that's just a first step. You can also factor out the common elements that define the look for your application in the same way that CSS is used to style a web site. » Read more

Integrating Tomcat and Apache on Mac OS X: Integrate Tomcat and Apache on Mac OS X without recompiling anything! — Simon Brown

jUnit to the Rescue: Mike Clark's blogs and presentations made me start wring code with test driven development. This is the report of my first attempt to use TDD professionally and I succeeded. — Andreas Schaefer

What's New in Javadoc
Today's edition of Java Live is titled What's New in Javadoc . Scott Seligman and Douglas Kramer will answer questions about the changes to the Javadoc tool that were included in J2SE 1.4. These changes include "several new tags and options, smarter inheritance of doc comments, and more control over HTML output." Join the chat Tuesday, October 14 from 11 am - noon Pacific which is 6 -7pm GMT.

XML Parsing in a Producer-Consumer Model
A multithreaded application presents different constraints for XML parsing. In XML Parsing in a Producer-Consumer Model, Prabu Arumugam presents a solution that uses SAX for parsing the XML file because it is fast and "does not construct any internal data representation of XML."