Java properties have been a staple of Java development for many years. Even today, Java properties are used in popular frameworks and tools such as the Spring Framework and Ant .

Ant still uses the familiar XML formatting. Some other Java build tools, such as Maven, also use XML formatting for build configurations, but others, like Gradle, use a scriptlike format (or, more ...

However, there's still a place in modern enterprise architectures for SOAP-based web services that exchange data in a highly structured XML format. This tutorial shows you how to build them in Java ...

Android developers can use Java and XML code to define the layouts for each Activity in an application. The application resources folder holds the XML layout files as well as graphics for the GUI.

He's talking about having 100MB+ XML files. He'll have to tweak his vmargs if he wants to use DOM, as well as have a rather beefy machine.