Jeff Heaton is the author of “Programming Spiders, Bots and Aggregators in Java” by Sybex. Jeff can be contacted through his website at http://www.jeffheaton.com.
Spiders are used for many purposes on the Internet. Search engines use spiders to locate Web pages for their databases. Companies use spiders to monitor their competitors' Web sites and track changes. Individual users use spiders to download the contents of Web pages for later offline ...
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Java contains an extensive array of classes for file access. A series of readers, writers, and filters make up the interface to the physical file system of the computer. The advantage to this sort of system of classes is that the programmer is freed from the overhead of dealing with th...
