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Don't be afraid to be wrong: How fruit flies lead to a revelation about software development. — Jim Cushing

JXTA Configuration Made Simple: Extensible, pluggable and unified ... it's *all* good. — James Todd

Dating Design Patterns: Dating Design Patterns is something that all developers should definitely check out. — John D. Mitchell

Tip on Parsing XML documents partially with StAX
Berthold Daum provides a second StAX tip for developerWorks in Tip: Parsing XML documents partially with StAX. StAX allows you to add filters so that you can skip over event classes you know you are not interested in. In this tip, Berthold provides examples of one filter that skips all processing instructions and another that skips an entire branch of an XML document. Modify the example source code to your own needs.

JXTA Wiki Configuration Extension
James Todd has written an article on the JXTA Configuration Extension on the wiki. His article includes several code examples of using the Configuration Extension. These include the trivial configuration where only a name and password are passed into the Configurator, the use of "of Configurator setters to generate specific configurations", the use of either a Profile or an existing PlatformConfig to seed the defaults, and programatically implementing the Configurator interface.