If you've written many full-blown applications in Java, especially ones in which input is accepted from a Web form or a Swing GUI, you've probably spent some time writing validation code -- that ...

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Constraining XML by using DTDs or XML Schema is a well-accepted practice. However, using those same mechanisms for constraining Java method arguments is uncharted territory. In this article, Brett ...