1. 3 Kinds of Libraries And some reflections on libraries in general As you arrive…please sit with your Tivoo groups

2. In Class Today Libraries for parsing XML Libraries for dealing with Dates Libraries for outputting HTML Reflections

3. Libraries for XML DOM - Document Object Model SAX - Simple API for XML JDOM - “a Java-based document object model for XML files” XPath – an added bonus

4. Parsing with DOM

5. Parsing with SAX

6. Parsing with JDOM

7. XPath

8. In Class Today Libraries for parsing XML Libraries for dealing with Dates Libraries for outputting HTML Reflections

9. Unix Epoch Time and “Human” Views of Time http://coolepochcountdown.com/ Sunday, November 4, 2012, 1:59am. What’s wrong with converting the above date to epoch time?

10. Java’s Built in Calendar class

11. Joda’s Parsing Or for more fancy formatting…

12. In Class Today Libraries for parsing XML Libraries for dealing with Dates Libraries for outputing HTML Reflections

13. gagawa

14. JSP

15. In Class Today Libraries for parsing XML Libraries for dealing with Dates Libraries for outputting HTML Reflections

16. Reflections on Libraries It’s usually not a good idea to hand-parse a standard format (unless you’re really looking for quick-n-dirty) In Java, there’s almost always a “built in” way to do what you want Using libraries has a cost, so you almost never want to use them if the code you’d be replacing is small But do make your coding a pleasure