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This article describes what are application events and how you can use them. Focuses on two important web application events; Application startup and shutdown, Session creation and invalidation.

The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API has emerged as a key part of the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms. It is the primary standards-based mechanism for the Java language to programmatically access relational databases, so when a new version of the specification is released by the Java Community Process, developers are bound to be interested. This article summarizes the key new features as outlined in Sun Microsystems' recently released Proposed Final Draft 3.0 of the JDBC specification.

XML is a data format concerned primarily with compatibility and flexibility. This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of XPath. Part 1 of this tutorial details the XPath specification, which allows you to specify particular sections of an XML document using a directory-like syntax. You'll learn the syntax of XPath, and you'll work with tools that let you experiment with XPath.

This is a sample chapter from the book 'Professional JSP' by Wrox Press. Inarguably the best book to master Java Server Pages.

The ThreadLocal class appeared with little fanfare in version 1.2 of the Java platform. While support for thread-local variables has long been a part of many threading facilities, such as the Posix pthreads facility, the initial design of the Java Threads API lacked this useful feature. Further, the initial implementation was quite inefficient. For these reasons, ThreadLocal gets relatively little attention, but it can be very handy for simplifying the development of thread-safe concurrent programs. This article examines ThreadLocal and offers tips for exploiting its power.