Another NetBeans Update Since the announcement in the recent layoffs at Sun on how the NetBeans team was affected, there’s been much concern over the health of the project. I’m not on the NetBeans team (I’m just a big Finkel fan! ;) so I can’t say for certain what’s going on, but it seems to me that Sun is still committed to the platform. Evidence of.....
Read More ›NetBeans Program Update - Feb 2009 Are you a NetBeans user? Are you wondering what’s going to happen to your IDE of choice given the recent Sun restructuring? The NetBeans Dream Team Call with Matt Thompson the new Sun NetBeans Director, which starts at 10:00am CST today (I just learned about it too) should answer some of your questions. Here are the details: NetBeans Program Update - Feb 2009 with Matt Thompson (the new.....
Read More ›Leveraging Identity with GlassFish and MySQL Late last year and early this year, I spent a great deal of time to author/edit a white paper detailing the deployment of Sun Identity Manager using GlassFish and MySQL. The paper, with additional input from Ed Ort, Suveen Nadipalli and John Clingan, gives a brief introduction to what identity management is and why you’d want it, then covers the whats, hows, and whys of MySQL.....
Read More ›Webinar Covering GlassFish’s ASadmin Tool Today at 1:00PM CST, the GlassFish team will host a webinar discussing the asadmin utility that ships with GlassFish. Here’s the official annoucment by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart (webified be me : This week’s webinar set presents ASadmin, the GlassFish administration CLI. The GlassFish GUI console is well designed and very well appreciated by the users but GUIs are not best for automation and power.....
Read More ›Free JCP Membership for JUGs Through the End of February If you are a member of a JUG (or happen to run one) and would like to be able to join the Java Community Process (JCP), you now have two options. For US-based JUGs, you can affiliate yourself with the new umbrella JUG-USA. According to Van Riper of the Silicon Valley JUG and the coordinator of the JUG-USA effort, all you need.....
Read More ›Mojarra Scales Gets a Z-Order Update As I noted in a recent entry, we are considering moving to a desktop-like interface for the GlassFish Administration Console, where the content is in separate "windows" (decorated DIVs, basically) which can be moved, closed, minimized, etc. As I’ve started working on a concrete implementation of some of those ideas, I quickly realized that we were going to have issues with multiple, overlapping windows. Once.....
Read More ›Bootstrapping a JSF 2 project I needed a break this afternoon, so I thought I’d see how easy it is to bootstrap a JSF 2 project. One of the biggest complaints about JSF 1.x is all that XML, so JSF 2 is aiming to fix that. How have we done so far? Based on this quick look (which is my first from-scratch JSF 2 app), really, really well. Here are the.....
Read More ›My Thoughts on AT&T U-verse In a recent discussion, the fact that I have AT&T U-verse came up. I was asked what my thoughts on it are, and I promised a blog about it. This entry is the somewhat belated fulfillment of the promise. First off, for those that don’t know, U-verse is, as best as I can tell, their answer to cable television. With the.....
Read More ›JSF 2 Gets Declarative Event Handling If you’ve been following the evolution of the JSF 2 spec closely, you have probably seen the addition of a finer-grained event system (if you haven’t seen it, section 3.4 of the spec is the relevant one). These events include things like AfterAddToViewEvent, BeforeRenderEvent, ViewMapCreatedEvent, etc. An application developer could subscribe to these events from a managed bean by using the API exposed.....
Read More ›Changes Are Coming to the GlassFish Admin Console GlassFish isn’t just an application server. It’s a community. For that reason, we on the admin console team want to take some time to run some ideas by the user community. For the GlassFish v3 final release due in the middle of next year, we plan to redesign the admin console. Since the admin console is usually high on the list of differentiators.....
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