I ventured into Java partly out of interest and partly out of necessity because the codebase for a virtual faceless web browser is in Java. I used HtmlUnit, a package of classes normally used for web unit testing, for fetching targeted web pages and extracting specific data from those pages. I used NetBeans 6.7.1 and [...]

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