Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold is originally from New Orleans to which he returns periodically in search of a decent bowl of gumbo. However, he currently resides in Irvine, California with his wife Beth, dog Shayna, and cats Charm (named after the quark) and Marjorie (named after his mother-in-law). He's a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Software Development, Dr. Dobb's Architecure & Design World, SD Best Practices, Extreme Markup Languages, and too many user groups to count. He's currently working on the XOM Library for processing XML with Java and the Jaxen XPath engine. His next book on the subject of Refactoring HTML will be published by Addison-Wesley in May.

Articles

The Open Road: java.nio.file
A file I/O API with reliable and speedy methods for copying and moving files? Getting and preserving file attributes? Filesystems to represent RESTful web servers or the contents of zip files? JSR 203, which may be part of Java 7, offers a totally overhauled approach to File I/O in Java. In this installment of "The Open Road," Elliotte Rusty Harold takes a look at the current spec. Jul. 3, 2008

The Open Road: Superpackages
Wonder what the relationship between com.example.package and com.example.package.test is? There isn't one! This lack of an orderly package-visibility relationship has made life difficult for a number of programmers trying to balance organizational needs against practical concerns. In this entry of "The Open Road," Elliotte Rusty Harold takes a look at how JSR 294 ("superpackages"), intended to be part of Java SE 7, proposes to fix this problem. Mar. 6, 2008

The Open Road: Building the JDK
Ready to work with the GPLed JDK from the OpenJDK project? Your first order of business will probably be getting the code compiled and running on your machine. And that's not an easy process. In this installment of The Open Road, Elliotte Rusty Harold relates the step-by-step process of building the JDK on Linux. Nov. 29, 2007

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