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XML, java.io, and the Composite Pattern

Tony Obermeit posted a question to the AJUG-QLD mailing list asking for help with a problem reading XML snippets. So, I thought I’d help him out, and this is the answer I gave.

*Update*: As pointed out by Pepijn Schmitz, Sun already provided the same solution: java.io.SequenceInputStream

*Another update*: I raised an RFE with Sun for the vararg support Vote early, vote often!

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Text files, test data, and the Jakarta Commons BeanUtils

Earlier, I wrote about testing only one thing at a time. A little one-liner I tossed out in that was using text files to load object graphs in your test cases. I thought I’d elaborate on that a bit more.

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