Jeff Genender writes about propagating dependency versions in the POM to sub-modules. He uses XML entity references.
In our current project we’re using a build mechanism of several modules, but propagate settings and POM info through the projext.xml extend element. We have one master project.xml file, that all other modules extend. If one of the other modules has other dependencies/info you can override/add it in the local project.xml file. This should propagate both POM and normal properties.
This blogentry shows you how to generate Word documents with a free java library. It seems pretty easy too.
I found an article on w3schools.com that surprised me quite a bit. The site has gathered information about the settings that their readers use, and presented the numbers in tables.
Screen resolution:
According to their numbers of July 2004 only 10% of the computers had a screen resolution higher than 1024×768, and 50% (increasing) of the computers were using 1024×768. The surpricing part was that as much as 35%(decreasing) were still using the 800×600 resolution!
Div statistics
90% of the computers had JavaScript enabled in July 2004 (about the same as in July 2003).
In September 2004 IE 6 was used by 69.6% of the users which is the same as in 2003, but Mozilla has during the last year increased from 6.2% to 16.9%. O 7 has increased slightly, but the rest are decreasing.
The number of users of Windows XP is now at 55.9% and increasing, while the older Windows versions are decreasing. Linux and Mac has increased by 0.6-0.7%.
(W3schools has used their web page and some other sites to gather the data for these statistics.)