JSFTemplating Meets Facelets I could be wrong, but I think it’s safe to say that most people don’t know about JSFTemplating, which is a pity, as it’s a pretty nice alternate ViewHandler implementation from Ken Paulsen, GlassFish admin console architect. One of the coolest features, I think, is its introduction of templating events (e.g., one can attach a beforeEncode event to a component on a page and have.....
Read More ›Unit Testing EJBs As we’ve done more and more EJB development, we’ve had to think pretty hard about how to unit test our beans. We’ve tried a couple of different approaches (including not testing, which I don’t recommend ;), but weren’t ever just real comfortable with the results. I’m pretty happy with the method we’re using now, and it’s so.....
Read More ›GlassFish Success Stories Jamey Wood and Shreedhar Ganapathy of GlassFish fame asked me some time ago if I would be interested in filling out a questionnaire describing my company's use of GlassFish. I finally got the questionnaire completed and turned back in, allowing Jamey and Shreedhar to finish up the article, which is now posted here. We’ve been using GlassFish in production since, if I recall correctly, March of last year, well.....
Read More ›Site Outage Some of you may have noticed an extended outage of this site for most of last week. It appears that my provider was having NFS issues which, to my knowledge, are ongoing. They told me they were watching my server hoping it would stabilize, all the while all I wanted was a functional site. I finally got them to move me to another server, and things appear to be back to normal. So.....
Read More ›Using the Woodstock Sortable Table At long last, the Woodstock component set is finally here. At IEC, we have been anxiously awaiting its release for quite some time now, as we’ve been hoping to make use of the sortable data table component it offers, which we have now done. Having done it, allow me to show off the component a bit, as well as explain what I had to do make things work.....
Read More ›Sandbox Demo and Nightlies Available Thanks to the generosity of Ryan Lubke, Ed Burns and the javaserver.org folks, the Sandbox demo application, which can be found in the Sandbox source tree, is now available online. There are a couple of known issues with it, but it should give you a good sense of the current state of the components. We also have nightly snapshots of the sandbox source, binaries and demo available on the.....
Read More ›JSF RI Sandbox FileDownload Component Changes Today I checked in a couple of changes to the RI Sandbox file download component that will make the component more flexible, and, therefore, more usable. Before these changes, the only way the component could be used was with one of two "methods:" "inline" (e.g., a PDF embedded in the page), or "download" (which was a link with a text anchor). While this worked, it was pretty limiting.....
Read More ›Merry Christmas! My general rule is that I avoid too much personal stuff here. I have other venues for those interested in that kind of thing, but it would be remiss of me if I did not take the time to wish a merry Christmas to those that read this blog. I truly hope your Christmas season was (and continues to be) a happy one, spent with family and friends. More importantly than that, though.....
Read More ›Why CakePHP? A reader recently asked me why I chose CakePHP over other frameworks, such as Prado, so I thought I’d answer that question briefly. What drew me to CakePHP was the "simplicity." I say that cautiously, as there is a bit of a curve, but there’s very little configuration (i.e., no xml). At the time, all the config files in Prado kinda scared me off. I liked how CakePHP.....
Read More ›Yahoo! UI and JSF Update I’ve had several people ask for an update on where things stand with my YUI components and their JSF component wrappers, so I figure I should take the time to answer that question. In terms of the state of the components, I currently have (admittedly basic) support for three components: Calendar, Menu and TreeView. Of the three, the Calendar seems to be the most "complete" in terms of.....
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