GlassFish v3 Is Now Available Today, the GlassFish team is pleased to announce the release of GlassFish v3. This release marks the first production-ready release of a Java EE 6 compliant application server. It also marks the culmination of a tremendous engineering effort to transform the very capable but monolithic GlassFish v2 into a small, sleek and scalable modular system, built on OSGi. You can get all the details over at The Aquarium. Of.....
Read More ›New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part I - sc:dataTable The migration of Mojarra Scales to JSF 2, adding new components has become much easier due to JSF 2’s new composite component feature. In the past couple of weeks, this new capability has paid off in spades as Mojarra Scales has gotten (so far) three new components in rapid succession. In this, the first part of a multi-part series, we’ll take.....
Read More ›Setting Up a New Web Site on DreamHost As a "computer guy," I get asked to help with all things computer-related. My church’s web site is no different. I was recently asked to help set up a new site. Since my time is limited and they need to get things going without waiting on me, I thought I would document my process for them, simple as it is. It occurred to me.....
Read More ›The Mojarra Scales Demo Has Moved With the recent migration of Mojarra Scales to JSF 2, the old location of the Mojarra Scales demo was no longer adequate (upgrading that server posed some issues). For that reason, I have moved the demo to a new home. This server should be more up-to-date (both in terms of the application as well as the application server — which is GlassFish v3, of course.....
Read More ›JSF 2, h:dataTable, and Ajax Updates While JSF has had Ajax support for a long time now, it has always been through external libraries such as Ajax4Jsf/RichFaces, ICEfaces, DWR, DynaFaces, etc. With JSF 2, the framework now has first class, standardized support for Ajax. This is good news on several fronts. For those that want Ajax support but would rather not import another library, that capability is now baked in, and, for those.....
Read More ›Mojarra 2.0 hits FCS Ryan Lubke announced today the availability of the first production-ready JSF 2 implementation with the release of Mojarra 2.0. You can download the binaries directly from java.net, or, use the information Ryan posted for specifying a dependency in your Maven pom file. Congrats to (the rest of) the Expert Group and, of course, the Mojarra development team (Ryan, Jim, Ed and Roger)...
Read More ›GlassFish v3 FishCAT Announced During the GlassFish v3 Prelude development cycle, the GlassFish team launched an initiative called FishCAT, which is our Community Acceptance Testing program. The program was very successful for Prelude, resulting in many, many reported (and fixed! : ) issues for the Prelude release. As we press hard toward the release of GlassFish v3 final later this fall, this program has been re-launched to help us engage our user community. Through this program.....
Read More ›Mojarra Scales 1.3.2 Has Been Released Late last night, I published Mojarra Scales 1.3.2. This is mostly a bug and performance fix, but here are some highlights from the release: <sc:links /> (and related supporting classes and components) was modified to allow files only from /scales to fix a pretty glaring security hole in some scenarios When multiple, local requests for a given resource type (CSS or JS) are.....
Read More ›FacesTester 0.3 Has Been Released After a lot of changes and a long delay, I’m pleased to announce that we have released FacesTester 0.3 tonight. This version has a large number of new features. Read on the for details. This release has three major changes: removal of almost all external dependencies, support for Servlet filters and listeners, and support for JSF 2. External Dependencies From the start, we have always depended.....
Read More ›I've Updated My About Page I should note here, for those that don’t follow me on Twitter, that I have updated and expanded my About page, for those that are interested in that sort of thing. A word of warning: There’s some personal stuff in there! :)...
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