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Presents your 
JAVA E-NEWSLETTER for March 24, 2003

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LET XDOCLET WRITE YOUR STUB CLASSES

Writing EJB and RMI stub classes, and other classes that are of value
only to the virtual machines running your applications, is often boring and
tedious. In addition to having to write the code, you also have to
modify the stub code whenever the corresponding host classes are modified.
XDoclet provides a better way.
http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/

XDoclet integrates with Ant and runs at build-time through custom Ant
tags. You use these tags the same way you use other Ant tasks.

You use XDoclet by adding custom Javadoc tags to your source code. When
XDoclet runs, it interprets these Javadoc tags as attributes for your
classes and uses them to generate source code.

To change the attributes, you change the XDoclet tags. The next time you
build your application, the changes are reflected in your new stub
classes. This means you're now managing your EJBs in just one place, 
making the whole process more efficient.

XDoclet can generate code for more than just EJB; it also works with
Hibernate, JBoss, WebSphere, BEA, JMX, JDO, and others.

XDoclet has evolved into a general purpose, code-generation tool.

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