Contemplating the brave new present
I have updated my small java-xmlbuilder project with some nice new features.
First, here’s a reminder of what this project does:
XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively sparse Java code.
It is intended to allow for quick and painless creation of XML documents where you might otherwise be tempted to use concatenated [...]
JetS3t (jet-set) version 0.7.1 is now available. This is the latest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite.
Visit the JetS3t web site to download the new version, run the updated online applications, or read the latest documentation: http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
This version includes bug fixes and support for the CloudFront service’s new Access Logs [...]
I am keen to try out Amazon’s new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse which adds EC2 instance management and direct deployment into the Eclipse IDE.
However, I have just wasted my afternoon trying to upgrade to a new version of Eclipse that:
Is version 3.3 or later, to be compatible with Amazon’s toolkit
Includes the Web Tools Platform, ditto
Actually [...]
The latest version of JetS3t (jet-set), my Java library for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, is now publicly available.
Visit the JetS3t web site to download version 0.7.0, to run the latest online applications, or to read the updated documentation.
Version 0.7.0 includes a number of bug fixes and support for some of the newest features of Amazon [...]
I have long been irked by the difficulty of creating simple XML documents in Java code. While Java has excellent support for handling XML in general, if you just need to whip up a quick document — say, to interact with a web service API — you can quickly get lost in a messy quagmire [...]