*StelsMDB* is a MDB JDBC type 4 driver that allows to perform SQL queries and other JDBC operations on Microsoft Access database files (MS Access 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 versions). The driver is completely platform-independent and does not require installing additional client or server software to provide access to MDB files. It can be effectively used to create, process and export Microsoft Access databases in your Java applications. *Features*: supports most keywords of ANSI SQL'92, supports inner and outer table joins, supports CREATE, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements, supports transactions, supports aggregate, numeric, string, conversion and user-defined SQL functions, platform independent.

*StelsCSV* is a JDBC driver that allows to perform SQL queries and other JDBC operations on text files (CSV, DSV, tab-separated, fixed-length, etc). Using this driver, you can easily create a fast database consisting of plain text files. Also, the driver can be used for writing data importing programs and migration tools. *Features:* supports most keywords of ANSI SQL92, supports inner and outer table joins, supports INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements, supports data types, supports aggregate, numeric, string, conversion and user-defined SQL functions, supports reading text files from Zip/Jar archives and HTTP URLs, platform independent.

This article coveres some of the new HTML 5 capabilities of modern browsers including powerful HTML 5 features such as multi-threading, geolocation, embedded databases, and embedded video. Learn how to use them in your applications.

The two open source tools that this article introduces — Swing Explorer and FEST-Swing — can make debugging and testing of Swing UIs simple and reliable. This article shows how to use them to understand a UI's structure, test how it functions, and troubleshoot issues.

Walk through the steps of incorporating OpenID into a sample Java application. Rather than implement the OpenID Authentication specification by hand, author J. Steven Perry uses the openid4java library and a popular OpenID provider, myOpenID, to create a safe and reliable registration process for a Java application written in Wicket.

This tutorial will walk through how to implement a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) DataGrid using ExtJS, Spring MVC 3 and Hibernate 3.5. What do we usually want to do with data? James Sugrue

The good news is that you can have a parameterized constructor (one). The docs (at least the Weld docs) tell us that this allows us to have immutable objects. A builder (a la Bloch?s from EJ2) would have been better, but this is a great relief from the stupidities of default constructors on every object. James Sugrue

Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.   At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k new activations of iOS devices every day.  Jobs said that Apple thinks they're ahead of everyone else because "some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers."  Google, thinking this referred to them, sent a release...

Welcome to the seventh and final episode of The Agile Guerilla series. The focus of this series of articles is to to help you introduce change, specifically moving to agility, into your organization from the grassroots level.In this episode we're going to take a look back at the road that we've travelled and then close with a challenge.

Here's a very useful technique for categorizing the myriad of I/O stream classes in Java.

The key to understanding the Java interface is to think of it as a mechanism for implementing a service contract.

Find out where the fundamental Java concept 'runtime polymorphism' gets its name and more importantly how it works.

There are particular challenges to building multithreaded applications with the pre-JDK1.5 threading framework versus the post-JDK1.5 framework. Get a comparison of both.

Get a quick introduction to the concept of object orientation, including the tenets of encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance.

Learn how to configure Hibernate for a Java Servlet-based application to persist a class.

With the UML plugin for the NetBeans IDE, you can create UML models that are platform-independent and reverse engineer models for Java.

You can generate Open Flash Charts in Rails: use a plugin that uses JSON to convert values from the database into Flash objects.

If you've looked for a Java position or if you are on the other side and are looking to fill a Java position in your company, then here are a few tips that will come in handy. (from Developer.com)

Spring stereotype annotations can greatly reduce the amount of XML configuration required to build and maintain a Spring application. (from DevX Java Zone)

Learn how to use Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Web components to develop a real world application with just the right mix of JavaScript/AJAX. (from DevX Java Zone)