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Welcome to A Definite Article, a repository of technical articles. Here are the most recently posted articles:

A Hello World Web Service Using Metro, Tomcat and Eclipse

Publication date: May 17, 2011

This article describes the steps to install, configure and run a "Hello, World" Web service using Apache Tomcat 6.x, Metro 2.1 and Eclipse Helios using Java 6.

Keywords: Metro Tomcat Eclipse Web Service

XML Schema and Namespaces

Publication date: May 11, 2011

Namespaces in XML are a way to organize names (e.g. element names) so as to avoid name conflicts. XML Schema lets you define the rules for XML content so that a given XML document is correct for your application. This article discusses how the two concepts interact.

Keywords: XML namespace schema elementFormDefault targetNamespace

Java Inner Classes

Publication date: April 14, 2011

Inner classes are syntatic feature that was added to Java in JDK 1.1. They provide a convenient way for a developer to define classes within the body of another class. This article discusses the how and why of inner classes.

Keywords: inner class Java nested static anonymous

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