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Maven is a high-level, intelligent project management, build and deployment tool from the Apache project. There is nothing that Maven does that Ant cannot do. Ant gives the ultimate power and ...

Microsoft will have been none too pleased when the Open Document XML format got ISO approval and it was said to be unlikely that their own Open XML would get it as well. In light of that, they have ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

Nontrivial software projects need build tools. In the Java world, there's no shortage of these tools, with Ant being the standard. Maven is another project management/build tool on the open source ...

Have you ever been assigned to an existing project where the original programmers are nowhere to be found? Or given source code from a third party and told to fix a bug, only to find there isn’t any ...

With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...