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Java and XML
by Brett McLaug... and Justin Edelson
Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 In the next two chapters, I’m going to give you a crash course in XML and con- straints. Since there is so much material available on XML and related specifications, I’d rather cruise through this material quickly and get on to Java. For those of you who are completely new to XML, you might want to have a few of the following books around as reference: • XML in a Nutshell, by Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means • Learning XML, by Erik Ray • Learning XSLT, by Michael Fitzgerald • XSLT, by Doug Tidwell These are all O’Reilly books, and I have them scattered about my own workspace. With that said, let’s dive in. XML 1.0 It all begins with the XML 1.0 Recommendation, which you can read in its entirety at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml. Example 1-1 shows an XML document that con- forms
(2007)
JRuby Cookbook
by Justin Edelson and Henry Liu
CHAPTER 1 Getting Started 1.0 Introduction JRuby is an open source implementation of the Ruby programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It allows Ruby applications to be run within a Java Virtual Machine and interface with libraries written in either Java or Ruby. Although the JRuby project was initiated in 2001, interest in JRuby has grown significantly over the last few years, reflecting an overall growth in interest in Ruby sparked by the success of the Ruby on Rails framework. Sun has contributed to JRuby’s success by employing mem- bers of the core development team and providing support for JRuby in the NetBeans development environment, among other efforts. The website for the JRuby project is currently http://www.jruby.org. Ruby Ruby is a dynamic object-oriented programming language created by Yukihiro Mat- sumoto, known by the nickname Matz, in the mid-1990s. Ruby follows a style of ver- sioning similar to the
(2009)
