Not So Late Breaking News I’ve been meaning to say something about this for while, now, but I have been a bit busy, and was finally beaten to the punch by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine over at The Aquarium. Before I go any further, go read Alexis' article, paying particular attention to the "real #1 winner" link. Go ahead. I’ll wait… image::https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/image/glassfish_logo_large.....
Read More ›The Means Stultify the End From time to time, someone, trying to cut through all the hype and spin, will attempt some sort of statistical analysis to determine which web framework is "winning." The results are almost always disappointing, and not because I don’t agree with the outcome, but because the methodology is so flawed. The most recent attempt I’ve discovered, noble as it is, is no different. If you read.....
Read More ›JSFOne: Day Two Day two is over, as I sit here on the morning of the third, despite my best intentions. It was a long day for me, but a good one, overall. Despite my two talks scheduled for that afternoon, I took the time to attend one of the JSFOne sessions presented by Ted Goddard of ICEsoft on "Ajax Push/ICEFaces." Ajax Push is the term ICEsoft prefers for what others call Comet (Ajax.....
Read More ›JSFOne: Day One I’m actually writing this on day 2, but I was up late working and didn’t get a chance last night, so, without further delay, here are my thoughts on JSFOne day #1. This conference is a little different for me, as I’m speaking at this one. My first day, then, was technically Wednesday night. I finally arrived at the hotel and promptly ran into Chris Schalk.....
Read More ›JSFOne Looms! JSFOne is just a week and a half away, so if you haven’t done so yet, buy those tickets! The Java Posse recently plugged the show in the Quick News section in what I think might be the greatest 34 seconds in Java Posse history. Listen for yourself. ;) http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer[Get the Flash Player] to see this player. var so = new SWFObject('https://media.dreamhost.com/mediaplayer.....
Read More ›Maven and Annotations: Not as Easy as It Should Be Over the past year or so, I’ve been slowly migrating — somewhat accidentally — to Maven. I had even begun migrating the build environment for Scales from Ant to Maven, but hit a huge roadblock: annotation processing. Scales depends heavily on compile-time annotation processing, and the only thing I could find on the web was other people with.....
Read More ›Quercus on GlassFish via the Update Center Jim Driscoll wrote a really helpful blog entry regarding the GlassFish Update Center module he wrote for Mojarra. After reading that, I decided to revisit Quercus on GlassFish. Using Jim’s incredibly detailed entry, as well as looking at the code in the Mojarra 2.0 SVN repo, I was able to get an Update Center module working that installs and configures Quercus for you, so now.....
Read More ›Mojarra Scales 1.0 RC2 is out I have just uploaded RC2 for Mojarra Scales 1.0, a JSF component set born of the Mojarra Sandbox. This release features a number of bug fixes and a handful of new enhancements. When updating, make sure you grab the latest JSFTemplating snapshot from either its download page or Maven, as there are some bug fixes and features there that Scales needs. You can download the last jar.....
Read More ›GlassFish, PHP and WordPress With all the hype around JRuby, Jython, Scala, Groovy, etc., an oft-overlooked dynamic language with JVM support is PHP. Thanks to the hard work of the folks at Caucho Technology, the Quercus project offers a pure Java implementation of the PHP language, sporting support for a lot of the major PHP-based applications. In this entry, we’ll look at how to configure GlassFish to provide easy PHP support.....
Read More ›Where will you be the first weekend in September? For those of you that like to hear me speak (and, yes, I’m looking at you, Mom!) I will be at JSFOne, a conference brought to you by the No Fluff Just Stuff team and dedicated to the JSF ecosystem. "JSFOne," you say? That’s what I said when I ran into Kito Mann at JavaOne. He mentioned that he and Jay Zimmerman.....
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