JavaOne 2009 Day 4 It just occurred to me that I never posted my final wrap up on JavaOne 2009. While it may be that, at this last date, no one cares anymore, I feel I should finish what I started, even if only for me. With that said, here’s my closing thoughts on what I hope is NOT the last JavaOne. Friday was for me, as it was for many it seems.....
Read More ›JavaOne 2009 Day 3 Day 3 of JavaOne 2009, the last full day of the conference, has come and gone. Like the rest of the crowd, I began to wind down a bit early. For no real good reason, I skipped the open general session this morning, or, rather, skipped most of it. I caught the tail end and got the see .Net and Java web services interoperating (using Metro on GlassFish, by the way.....
Read More ›JavaOne 2009 Day 2 JavaOne 2009 Day 2 has come and gone, so here I sit on day 3 typing my recap. I never promised a punctual report! :) My day started with a talk by Max Katz on using JavaFX and Seam in an app. It was an impressive talk. The Exadel folks have done a lot of hard work in getting the two technologies working together. Next up was a talk by Vivek Pandey.....
Read More ›JavaOne 2009 Day 1 JavaOne 2009 started yesterday. It was a long, fun day which started with an interesting general session and ended, for me, with my very first JavaOne presentation (source and slides linked below). The reviews and reactions to the conference have been pretty interesting. Hopefully, mine will be too. The opening general session started, as last year did, with entertainment. As opposed to the loud, attention-demanding dance team, this year we.....
Read More ›CommunityOne 2009 Today was CommunityOne, the free conference that precedes, and this year, runs concurrently with JavaOne. This year, my wife was able to travel out with me for a little vacation after JavaOne concludes. With her CommunityOne pass, she got to attend today’s activities with me, which was a nice change from last year. When we landed in San Francisco, we checked in, ate a quick lunch, then jumped into the sessions.....
Read More ›JavaServer Faces 2.0 Is Final! See the Executive Committee for SE/EE vote here. Download Mojarra, the reference implementation, here...
Read More ›FacesTester 0.2 Has Been Released Today we released FacesTester 0.2. While this release has a number of bug fixes and more minor enhancements, one of the biggest new features is injection support. Leveraging the InjectionProvider Service Provider Interface (SPI) provided by Mojarra, FacesTester now supports the automagic injection of mock/test objects. For example, the following managed bean: public class ManagedBeanWithJpa { @PersistenceContext(unitName = "em") private EntityManager entityManager; public EntityManager getEntityManager() { return entityManager; } public.....
Read More ›Making Tables Harder Than They Need To Be I know you’re not supposed to do this, but sometimes it’s just easier. Sometimes I use `table`s to layout out my forms. Especially for big forms, it’s just easier to put things in a table than deal with `label`s, CSS, etc. Right or wrong, I do it from time to time, but, thanks to David Geary, I just learned.....
Read More ›UPDATED: Web Beans Webinar On May 19th, Pete Muir, JSF 2.0 Expert Group member and Web Beans implementation lead (if I recall correctly) will be leading, in conjunction with The Aquarium, a webinar covering the forthcoming Java Contexts and Dependency Injection JSR (JSR-299, formerly known by the JSR’s former name, Web Beans). Unfortunately, that’s right in the middle of the Oklahoma City JUG’s meeting, so I can.....
Read More ›Book Review: Practical RichFaces One of the great strengths and successes, I think, of the JavaServer Faces specification is the proliferation of third party components. One of the older and better known component sets is RichFaces, which started out under a company called Exadel and is now part of JBoss. For many, RichFaces is the first add-on component set for a new JSF project, and with good reason. I recently had the opportunity to.....
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