About JavaXT

Yup, that's me back in the summer of 2006 contemplating getting into Java.

This project was started back in the summer of 2006 when I started porting some of my code from .NET to Java. At the time Java 1.6 was just coming out and I was frustrated by the amount of code required to do some of the most basic operations. I started writing utilities to simplify my code and plug some holes I saw in the core JDK. Over time the code started to grow to cover things like database connections and webservice bindings. I needed a namespace to encapsulate these utilities so I created javaxt.com.

Of course, a lot has changed since 2006. Java has matured quite a lot over the years and has added a ton of features that simply didn't exist when I first started this project. But I still use my JavaXT libraries every day :-)

I know the code is far from complete and definitely not perfect but I hope you find it useful. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions at peter.borissow@yahoo.com

 

Acknowledgements

The core JavaXT package includes code developed by the following individuals.

• Qin (Cedric) Zhang
• Developed the original FileSystemWatcher dll and JNI classes used in the java.io.Directory class. I have extended the original code to capture information such as which files are being updated.
• Jerry Huxtable
• Adapted 2 image processing classes in the javaxt.io.Image class to skew an image.
• http://www.jhlabs.com
• Robert Harder
• Mr. Harder developed a native Base64 encoder/decoder for Java. This class is available in the javaxt.utils.Base64 class and is used to encode binary data in the javaxt.webservices.WSDL class.
• http://iharder.net/base64
• Dan Andrews
• Developed the original prototype for the LnkParser class. The LnkParser class is used to parse a windows .lnk files (aka shortcuts). The original code can be found here:
• http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.help/browse_thread/thread/a2e147b07d5480a2/
• Christian d'Heureuse
• Developed the MiniConnectionPoolManager - A lightweight standalone Java JDBC connection pool manager. This class is available in the javaxt.sql.ConnectionPool class. Original code can be found here:
• http://www.source-code.biz/miniconnectionpoolmanager/
• Norman Walsh
• Developed an EXIF metadata parser for the W3C Jigsaw project. A modified version of the EXIF metadata parser is found in the javaxt.io.Image class. Original code can be found here:
• http://jigsaw.w3.org/Doc/Programmer/api/org/w3c/tools/jpeg/package-summary.html