Mojarra Scales 1.3.1 Has Been Released Early this morning, I published Mojarra Scales 1.3.1. I’ve been remiss in making good updates where when I make release, so, rather than creating a new post for each release long after the fact, I’ll try to being everyone up to the current state in just one. Much has changed over the past few weeks. We started using Scales in the.....
Read More ›FacesTester Can Now Test State Saving In my experience, a pretty common bug with custom components is improper state saving. Since JSF components are, currently, stateful, it’s important that custom components integrate with the frameworks state saving mechanism correctly. Unfortunately, it can be an error-prone process, as it’s a manual effort. Now, however, custom component authors can use FacesTester to exercise this aspect of their components to help insure proper.....
Read More ›Happy Easter In Christ Alone: There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then, bursting forth in glorious day Up from the grave He rose again And as He stands in victory Sin’s curse has lost it’s grip on me For I am His and He us mine Bought with the precious blood of Christ No guilt in life, no fear in death This is.....
Read More ›FacesTester 0.1 Released About a month ago, I announced a new project, FacesTester, a JUnit-based testing tool for JSF that my good friend Rod Coffin and I have undertaken. Since then, Rod posted a very nice introduction to FacesTester usage. Today, we made our first official release, FacesTester 0.1. The version number should indicate that it’s still a work in progress, but it is already quite functional (I, for one.....
Read More ›My JSFCentral Interview Has Been Published Careful readers of my blog (thank you, dear wife! : ) will remember that I was interviewed at JSFOne by the conference co-founder and JSFCentral founder Kito Mann. That interview, complete with transcript, has been published on JSFCentral. I was a bit nervous about how it would turn out, but I think it turned out pretty well. I’m not a big fan of hearing my recorded voice, but.....
Read More ›The Maven Release Plugin Is Pretty Slick Maven catches a lot of flak from a lot of people. I’ve even been known to bemoan some its eccentricities from time to time. Over the past year and a half, though, I’ve done more and more with Maven, and I’m to the point now where that’s all I use. In fact, Maven and Ant have traded positions in my.....
Read More ›Webinar: From Ajax Push to JSF 2.0: ICEfaces on GlassFish The GlassFish webinar series is, I think, a pretty valuable resource for regular readers of my blog, as it covers a lot of topics that I cover here. Today’s webinar, "From Ajax Push to JSF 2.0: ICEfaces on GlassFish," is particularly relevant, as it’s a JSF-related session. Here’s the abstract: Ted will provide details on how.....
Read More ›Announcing FacesTester One of the issues that has always troubled me with regard to writing JSF applications (or any web application, really) is how hard it is to test them. Some time ago, while discussing various Java web frameworks, I stumbled across a class called WicketTester, which is part of the Wicket project. Using this class, as best as I can tell, Wicket authors can easily test their applications very quickly. Having taken the advice.....
Read More ›Opinions Wanted: v3 GUI Prototype As I mentioned in a recent post, we’re investigating some changes to the GlassFish v3 Administration Console. We finally have something fairly concrete to show, and have set up a demo site for you to play with. Ken Pauslen sent an email regarding our demo to the GlassFish users' list, so instead of repeating all of that, I’ll simply quote his email for you below. Note.....
Read More ›What's Happening In the World of Mojarra Scales? I’ve been a bit silent of late on what’s happening with Mojarra Scales, so I thought I’d take a moment to bring everyone up to speed. For starters, and I guess this is the official announcement of this, I’ve moved the project from java.net to kenai.com. Anyone who has used java.net knows that it.....
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