Rich Web Experience, Day 1 Today, I’m attending No Fluff Just Stuff's "The Rich Web Experience" conference in San Jose. Having had a great experience with NFJS’s Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium, I have high expectations for this conference, and, so far, I’ve not been disappointed. After breakfast and an expert panel discussion, I headed off for the sessions. While they were all good today, a couple stand out.....
Read More ›JUGs Offer More Than Free Pizza As regular readers likely know, I am currently serving as the president of the Oklahoma City Java Users Group. One of the things we’ve really been focusing on is getting the word out about our JUG, hoping to increase not only attendance, but the size of our speaker pool as well. Since we’ve really started pushing this effort, I’ve done a fair amount.....
Read More ›Thank you, Sun I’m a bit hesitant to post this as I’m afraid that it may come across as self-congratulatory, which is not my intent at all, but I think Sun deserves an "atta-boy." Recently, Sun sought to reward various contributors who they felt have been a boon to GlassFish. On two different occasions, I have been blessed to be recipient of Sun’s largess. At JavaOne 2007.....
Read More ›Another RI Sandbox Progress Report With some help from Ryan Lubke, a number of issues have been fixed in the RI Sandbox, including: * "Standard" Attribute Support * Update various CSS files * Make the tabs default to something prettier and several minor fixes here and there. Having done that, I’ve bumped the version (which I have been awful at maintain thus the jump from 0.1 to the seemingly arbitrary 0.7) to 0.8.....
Read More ›Comparing the GlassFish and OC4J Admin Consoles As I’ve noted previously, a recent job change has required that I become familiar with Oracle’s application server, Oracle Containers for Java, or OC4J. I recently set aside time to set up my OC4J environment to test a prototype I have been working on and have running under GlassFish. After getting the server installed and logging on to the administration console, I was struck.....
Read More ›RI Sandbox Update: A Blogging Hat Trick For my record setting, third blog in a single day, I thought I’d make a quick update on the state of the RI Sandbox components. Just a couple of days ago, a former coworker started asking questions about my download component, which made me realize that I should probably find some time to do some work on them. As a general rule, they’re all.....
Read More ›A Quick Administrative Note I recently made a change that I should probably note here: In mid-May, I left my employer of the past 2+ years, IEC, to join Objectstream as a Software Architect, and for whom I will be working at the FAA’s Mike Monroney Aernoautical Center here in Oklahoma City. While I’m very excited about this opportunity (and have enjoyed the past few weeks), it was not an.....
Read More ›JSFTemplating: Announcing beta support for Facelets templates The JSFTemplating team is proud to announce that a new, Facelets-compatible format has been added to JSFTemplating and has reached the beta stage. Not all of the Facelets components are currently supported; those that are currently supported are ui:component, ui:decorate, ui:include, ui:define, and ui:remove, with the addition of a new ui:event, which brings the power of JSFTemplating’s events to.....
Read More ›Virtual Hosting using Apache and GlassFish While many have found GlassFish to be a great choice for an internal application server, there are others that would like to push it a bit further, and use it in an ASP/ISP envrionment. Jan Luehe discussed GlassFish’s virtual hosting features in a recent blog entry. What I’d like to do in this entry is take the information that Jan presented, and walk through.....
Read More ›TinyMCE Support in the Sandbox I have just committed preliminary support for the TinyMCE JavaScript HTML editor. There are parts that still don’t work correctly, but it’s a good start. This example markup: <h3>Normal editor</h3> <risb:htmlEditor rows="10" cols="85" value="#\{testBean.editorValue}"/> <h3>Simplified editor</h3> <risb:htmlEditor rows="10" cols="85" value="#\{testBean.editorValue}" themeStyle.....
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