GlassFish Roadmap There has been a lot of speculation and concern about the fate of GlassFish after the Oracle acquisition. Yesterday, though, we were able to unveil the official roadmap for GlassFish, and I think it looks very promising. In short, not much is going to change with regard to the open source side of things, though there are some changes on the commercially supported offering, which is not unexpected. Some of the highlights include.....
Read More ›Writing Selenium Tests for the GlassFish Admin Console One of the results of the Oracle purchase of Sun has been an increased focus on testing — not that we didn’t test GlassFish before, but it was mostly manual in my area of the server. The task of automating this fell to me, and, after a little — ahem — testing, I settled on Selenium. For those that.....
Read More ›Run GlassFish V3 As a Non-Root Service on Gentoo Linux Byron Nevins, a colleague of mine here at Oracle, has a couple of nice blog entries showing how to run GlassFish as a service, both as root and non-root users, on Ubuntu or Debian. As a Gentoo user, that doesn’t help me much, unfortunately, but, some time ago, I developed a script that works great for me, so I thought I.....
Read More ›New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part IV – sc:combo Yesterday brought us Part III in our look at some new components in Mojarra Scales. Today, Part IV brings us sc:combo, combination, if you can imagine that, of a h:selectOneMenu and h:inputText. The h:selectOneMenu is a nice control as it allows the application author to limit what the user can enter, thus helping insure data integrity (and sanity). Sometimes, though, it would.....
Read More ›New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part III – sc:imageZoomer and sc:lightbox In Part II of this series, I introduced the new auto complete component in Mojarra Scales. In this installment, we’ll take a look at two new closely related components, sc:imageZoomer and sc:lightbox. The first component, sc:imageZoomer, displays a thumbnail, and, when clicked, "zooms" that thumbnail up to the full size image. Here is a sample usage: <sc.....
Read More ›A Comparison Table of 4 Android Phones I’ve been an iPhone user for about 1.5 years now. I’m mostly happy with it, but I’d kinda like to write applications for it. The problem, though, is that the iPhone uses Objective-C (and I don’t consider writing web apps the same thing as writing an iPhone app ; ). Enter Google’s Android. I can use my existing.....
Read More ›Merry Christmas! As 2009 winds down to a close, it is my hope that you and your family have a very merry Christmas. It is my prayer that in the hustle and bustle of the season, the real meaning — the birth of the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ — is not lost: Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all.....
Read More ›New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part II – sc:autoComplete In Part I, I introduced the new YUI-backed Scales dataTable component. In this installment in the series, we"ll take a look at another new component available in Scales 2.0, sc:autoComplete. The auto-complete component is likely very familiar to most seasoned web users. As information is typed into a field on the form, suggestions are displayed in a box that appears below.....
Read More ›GlassFish v3 Virtual Conference This is a little late notice, but we at Sun are holding a "virtual conference" covering GlassFish v3, Java EE 6, etc. You can find details here. It starts in 30 minutes (10:00 CST, 8:00 PST). :)...
Read More ›NetBeans 6.8 Is Now Available While we’re making product announcements, I might as well mention that NetBeans 6.8 is available today as well. I really think NetBeans is the best Free <del>Java</del> multi-language IDE on the market. It’s by no means perfect, but I like it a lot.1 Quoting from the release: Today Sun and the NetBeans™ community are announcing.....
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