To be honest, as a Java veteran, there is very little XML any more apart from a bit of Tomcat config usually. It's all gone in favor of annotations which are mu

To be honest, as a Java veteran, there is very little XML any more apart from a bit of Tomcat config usually. It's all gone in favor of annotations which are much better. It ain't J2EE 1.4 days any more (thank fuck). The only thing I've done involving XML recently was setting tomcat 7 to serve a war file from the root site and that took about 2 minutes to work out.