Enhancing your blog with proper code formatting

Today Luciano told me my blog is a mess, at least I should properly format my code. He is right.
I have followed these instructions:

http://concise-software.blogspot.com/2010/03/enabling-syntaxhighlighter-in-blogger.html



I am testing now:
this is done with the xml brush:

Using <pre name="code" class="brush: xml"> :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Employee>
 <name>Pierre</name><age>33</age>
</Employee>

this is done with the java brush:

Using <pre name="code" class="brush: java"> :

public class XMLLoaderTest {
 @Test
 public void testname() throws Exception {
  XMLLoader<Employee> loader = new XMLLoader<Employee>();
  Employee emp = loader.getObjectFromXMLFile(Employee.class, "testResources/Employees.xml");
  System.out.println(emp.getName() + " " + emp.getAge());
 }
}

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
import java.io.File;

/**
 * Helper class to load Java Objects from an XML document
 * See test methods for usage  
 * @author pierre
 *
 * @param <T>
 */
public class XMLLoader <T> {
 /**
  * Loads an object from a XML file
  * @param theClass
  * @param fileName
  * @return
  * @throws JAXBException
  */
 public T getObjectFromXMLFile(Class theClass, String fileName) throws JAXBException {
  T result = null;
  JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(theClass);
  Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
  result = (T)unmarshaller.unmarshal(new File(fileName));
  return result;
 }
}

It works!
Make sure that you include the BrushXyz.js file when you use the "brush: xyz"


Also, I had to load some additional js (you can copy them from my HTML source) to make it look really pretty.

I have the impression that this beauty comes with a cost: the page is slower to load.


I have now copied the .js and .css files to my google site,  it seems much faster!