Does Blogger(blogspot) support code formatting?

Here are some attempts..

This is using format my source code for blogger utility.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
       http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
        version="2.5">
 <filter>
     <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
     <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
 </filter>
 <filter-mapping>
     <filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
     <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
 </filter-mapping>

</web-app>

Some trial with an excellent web based tool provided at http://www.manoli.net/csharpformat/

I copied the CSS given by this site to my blogger template.
The results are good. But needs tweaking as default blogger linespacing is kind of messed. Then I tweaked it a little bit and mixed with the pre tag in above code formatting style. Works to certain extend. But I am not satisfied with the output. May be I need to change my Blog's basic template to a wider one to accommodate the source code. Thats for later!!!

Work in progress - my very rich swing application - part 4

Recently, I shifted focus from the "swing" factor. As I was building and polishing the application, I realized that most of my expenses are covered using my bank card. So, if the application just accepts journal entries, it is useful only to students and kids.

So, I started learning about the bank statement formats - yes, OFX - the open financial exchange format. The format is in SGML to my dismay - and there is NO SGML Parser in Java. SGML is a loosely structured but complex language to express data - and XML has replaced it in most fields. 

But anyway, I need to parse OFX. So, I turned to ANTLR - the excellent parser generator. I am in the initial stages of learning curve, but it is really interesting and simple. I think any student who is learning compiler theory should use ANTLR as the learning tool. Oh, coming back to my application - right now, the focus is on parsing only bank statements.

A simple plugin framework in Java

As part of my hobby project, I thought of coming up with some sort of a plug-in mechanism. Though I have worked in a "plug and play"-like J2EE project, I have never done a desktop application with plug-in nature.
I like the way plug-ins work in eclipse. Just extract your plug-ins in to a specific folder. So, my application also would have a similar plug-in mechanism.
Following is the way I have implemented the plug-in manager:

Get to plugins directory
For each file in plugins directory
If file ends with ".jar"
See if there is a plugin-manifest.xml inside the jar
If found read the XML and get data about the Plugin
Save plugin data to a list/map for future use
Add the jar to current classpath as plugin may be used.
End if
End if
End for