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JXPath is an interpreter of
an expression language called XPath. JXPath applies
XPath expressions to graphs of Java objects.
XPath was standardized by W3C and
is used in both XSLT and XPointer.
JXPath supports JavaBeans,
Java Collections, Maps etc. It also works with DOM objects,
the same way XPath was originally intended. A DOM node
can be the root of the graph, or a property value,
collection element, variable value. XML files
can be loaded as needed during the traversal of JXPaths.
JXPath supports such operations
as:
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Graph traversal:
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Retrieving property values by name
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Retrieving map elements by key
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Retrieving collection elements by
the index or search criteria
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Search in object graphs.
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Basic logical, arithmetic, string and
collection manipulations
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Java method calls and object construction
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Pools of variables
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Extension functions
Consider this example:
Address address = (Address)JXPath.getValue(vendor,
"locations[address/zipCode='90210']/address");
This XPath expression is equvalent
to the following Java code:
Address address
= null;
Collection locations = vendor.getLocations();
Iterator it = locations.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()){
Location location = (Location)it.next();
String zipCode = location.getAddress().getZipCode();
if (zipCode.equals("90210")){
address = location.getAddress();
break;
}
}
Primary applications of
JXPath are in scripting: JSP and similar template/script
based technologies.
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JEX is a universal set of APIs
for expression languages. Individual expression languages
function as plug-ins. You use the same set of APIs to invoke
any of them.
JEX can be "multilingual".
It can figure out which expression language to use by looking
at the expression's prefix. For example, if the expression
is "xpath://address[@name='John']" ,
JEX will invoke a XPath processor. If the expression is "javascript:findAddress('John')" ,
JEX will invoke a Javascript processor. You can also set a
default language, in which case you won't have to use prefixes.
Learn
more.
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An powerful early implementation of Enum
for Java. It predated the official introduction of the enum in Java 5 in 2004
Unlike its ancestors (C and
C++) Java does not support the notion of an enum,
which is a data type all values of which are explicitly enumerated
in the type definition.
That said, an object-oriented
implementation of the concept of enum in Java can be much
more powerful than C-style enum.
The Enum framework
(in reality, the whole framework is a single class) proves
that by providing extensive functionality that includes:
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Either an integer or string value or both
for each constant
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A human-readable description that can
be easily internationalized. An enum type is automatically
associated with .properties files containing labels of
constants in specific languages.
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All constants of an Enum can be (but don't
have to be) loaded from a .properties file.
Every Enum type is represented
by a separate class extending the Enum abstract class (see
API)
Of course, Enum is free and
comes with the source code.
Please read a more detailed
description of Enum
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