Interested in Servlet 3.0? If so, you might be interested in the latest webinar from The Aquarium covering Java EE 6 and Servlet 3.0. Spec leads Roberto Chinnici and Rajiv Mordani will be leading the next session covering these two topics. Eduardo has the details...
Read More ›A One-Man JSF 2 Blog Storm As the specification writing part of JSF 2 comes to a close, we’re getting a more complete implementation done on the reference implementation, Mojarra. One of the primary developers on Mojarra is Jim Driscoll (the other being Ryan Lubke, who has done such an excellent job on the 1.2 series). Jim, apparently, has been in a writing mood and has posted a number of very.....
Read More ›JavaFX 1.0 Release Set for December 4 With the release of JavaFX 1.0 scheduled for this Thursday, December 4, the JavaFX team set up a technical pre-launch call and invited JUG leaders, Java Champions, NetBeans Dream Team members and others to call in and get a sneak peak at what was coming (audio and slides available here). Josh Marinacci was the engineer on hand to give us the preview. A couple of.....
Read More ›JSF 2.0 Public Review is online The current state of the JSF 2 spec has entered the Public Review phase. If you have any interest in JSF, now is a good time to review what we’ve done in the spec thus far and send feedback, which we will discuss and digest for the Proposed Final Draft due out next. You can find the Public Review here, and you can send your comments.....
Read More ›NetBeans 6.5, Python Support, and Mac OS X The NetBeans team recently released version 6.5 of the NetBeans IDE, which I really, really like. They also released an Early Access peek at the Python support coming for NetBeans. Unfortunately, it’s not straightforward to get Python and Java EE support in the same installation. The Python EA release is a complete NetBeans installation, i.e., you can’t just add the.....
Read More ›Seam, WebBeans and GlassFish For some time now, Sun has made use of Ustream.TV to broadcast webinars covering various topics of interest to GlassFish users. That effort continues on November 20th at 11am PST as Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart hosts Dan Allen, author of Seam in Action to discuss Seam, WebBeans, and GlassFish. Some of WebBeans' companion specs (EJB 3.1 and JSF 2) will also be covered by spec leads Ken Saks.....
Read More ›Extending the GlassFish v3 Prelude Administration Console Today, the GlassFish community is launching GlassFish v3 Prelude (Release Notes and Quick Start Guide). If you are not familiar with what Prelude is, here is a short write up giving the high level details. In this article, I’d like to focus on the third bullet there, "CLI and administration console extensibility." Specifically, we’ll look at what it takes to create a plugin that.....
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Read More ›Making Your GlassFish v3 Prelude Administration Console Plugin Pluggable In my last article, I talked about writing plugins for the GlassFish v3 Prelude Administration Console, which showed the various integration types supported out-of-the box by the console, but what if a plugin developer would like to allow <i>other</i> plugins to extend it just like the console itself does. In this short article, we’ll show how.....
Read More ›One more note (for now :) on GlassFish v3 Prelude. Sun is holding an online event called GlassFish Day, which is a day of short presentations (about 10 minutes each). There will be several presentations throughout the day. To see the schedule and decide which ones are of interest to you, please see this entry from The Aquarium...
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