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Brett McLaughlin

Brett McLaughlin has been working in computers since the Logo days
(remember the little triangle?). He currently specializes in building
application infrastructure using Java and Java-related technologies. He
has spent the last several years implementing these infrastructures at
Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom Inc. Brett is one of the
co-founders of the Java Apache project Turbine, which builds a reusable
component architecture for Web application development using Java
servlets. He is also a contributor of the EJBoss project, an open source
EJB application server, and Cocoon, an open source XML Web-publishing
engine.

 

Articles

Varargs Excerpt from Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
In this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook, Brett and David cover how to create and iterate over variable-length argument lists (better known as varargs), which will have you writing better, cleaner, more flexible code in no time.

Weblogs

Tiger's Out -- Will It Matter?

Surfing over to the weblogs site, it seems that every weblog I read is about Tiger (Java 5). That's no surprise, by any means, as this release is officially a...

Open Source - A Divider?

So the other day, I posted about Java not seeming to be so cool anymore. And I obviously know cool -- I had enough sense to actually grab a...

Ho Hum Java

I was into Java before it even hit 1.0. Back then, it was a clumsy language, but cool in all sorts of ways that C++ and assembler weren't. Writing a networked game took a few hours, rather than...

Is anyone actually using XML Encryption and XML Signature?

I do a lot of freelance writing and editing, particularly of Java- and XML-related content. Recently, I was tech. editing a piece, over several articles, on XML Signatures and XML Encryption. The...

Switched... then switched back... and then switched again

OK, I admit it. I'm a bit of a trend-happy person, at least in the computer world. When all the buzz around Mac OS X took off last year, I got pretty excited and jumped in full-steam. It helped...