According to the PrimeFaces website, “PrimeFaces is an open source component suite for Java Server Faces featuring 70+ Ajax powered rich set of JSF components. Additional TouchFaces module features a UI kit for developing mobile web applications.“. Since it is an OpenSource JSF implementation that is very close to releasing […]
Wouter van Reeven
Wouter is Java consultant at AMIS
Java EE 6 and GlassFish 3.0 released!
In the past few month several Java EE 6 related JSRs (Java Specification Requests) have been finalized. The final ballot for them ended on November 30 and all were approved. Today, December 10, 2009, Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3, THE reference implementation of Java EE6, are released. Four […]
Migrating your web applications from JEE5 to JEE6
On Wednesday, November 11, the Netherlands Java Users Group (NL-JUG) organized the JFall 2009 Java conference. At the conference I had the pleasure of doing a presentation with a live demo about what steps can be taken to migrate an existing JEE5 web application to JEE6. The application ran on […]
Making GlassFish v3 available using Apache2 and mod_jk
The upcoming release of JEE 6 means that the next release of GlassFish, version 3, still is under development. However, it is stable enough to try out many features of JEE 6 already. apart from support for JEE 6, the integration with mod_jk has significantly improved recently. Earlier this week […]
More impressions of JavaOne 2009
Like my colleague Lucas I attended JavaOne 2009. This post will describe my impressions of JavaOne 2009. The event turned out to be a mix of great things. I attended loads of great sessions, I met many great people and I had an awesome time in San Francisco. By the […]
RichFaces plugin for NetBeans updated
About a year ago, during JavaOne 2008, Geertjan Wielenga and I created NetBeans modules for JBoss RichFaces support. Last week we updated the modules so now version 3.3.0.GA of RichFaces is supported. I updated the components palette with the newest a4j and rich tags. Geertjan introduced some new images for […]
Testing seam-gen in Seam 2.1.2-SNAPSHOT with GlassFish v2
On March 15 I read on The Aquarium that JBoss’ Dan Allen added JBoss AS 5 and GlassFish support to seam-gen. I had the pleasure to have met with Dan Allen at Devoxx 2008 (we hosted a BOFF on GlassFish and Seam) and there he already mentioned thinking about adding […]
Multi select in RichFaces trees
In the past few months I have been involved in a development project where we are using Hibernate, Seam and RichFaces. One of the requirements of our customer is to have a hierarchical data structure represented in a tree structure. We found that the RichFaces rich:tree component meets all the […]
Devoxx 2008: The major announcements
At the time I’m writing this, Devoxx 2008 is well into it’s second day. Day one was quite interesting, with the major announcement being the release of JavaFX 1.0 last week. Apart from that, IBM presented their RFID technology, which has been incorporated into our access badges. Day two held […]
JDeveloper 11g on Linux
It has been awaited for a long time. But now it’s finally there: JDeveloper 11g! At the time of this writing (Tuesday, October 7, 11:20 AM CEST), only the Linux download works. Fortunately I run Debian on my laptop. Here’s some screenshots of the installation.
Providing RichFaces support for NetBeans: learning it from the master
Earlier this week, Geertjan Wielenga asked me if he could come and visit me to watch the Netherlands beat France in the soccer match on Friday, June 13. Of course I said yes! So, Geertjan is visiting me right now in our AMIS office in Nieuwegein. While he is here, […]
JavaOne 2008 LAB: Dynamic Service Composition with OpenESB and NetBeans
Apart from sessions in which an overview of a certain topic is presented, JavaOne also had a few sessions in which the audience got the chance to actually do some work theirselves. These so called labs typically took up two hours in contrast to "normal" sessions that took up one […]
JavaOne 2008: day 2
The second day of JavaOne 2008 started with a key note by Oracle. After that I attended a presentation about the Swing Application Framework and WebBeans. Next I hung around at the Pavilion and then attended a presentation with THE BEST AND COOLEST demo I have ever seen. Curious? Read […]
AMIS presents at JavaOne 2008
On day 2 of JavaOne 2008, Lucas Jellema and Peter Ebell did a presentation about enabling company and user level customizations of JSF applications. Using the title "Did We Spoil The End User? Building Personalization into JavaServer Faces Technology-Based Applications" they entertained the public in a role playing presentation. Lucas […]
Web Synergy: Sun and Liferay bundle their forces
On day 2 of JavaOne 2008 I visited the Sun booth at the Pavilion to ask some questions about the Open Portal project. There I got word that Sun and Liferay have bundled their forces in a project called Web Synergy. I received a USB stick with lotsa software on […]
JavaOne 2008 day 1: it’s begun!
Today JavaOne 2008 ofiicially started. About 15,000 Java minded people showed up at Moscone Center in San Francisco. On our way there, my colleague Lucas remarked “Java One at Mosc One” Key Note We were welcomed at Moscone with some modern dance music. On stage, a bunch of dancers were […]
JavaOne 2008 day 0: CommunityOne
It is a fact: JavaOne 2008 unofficially started today! CommunityOne kicked off at 9:30 with a general session. At 11:00 the first parallel sessions started. Here is what I think of today. General Session During the general session Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing at Sun […]
JavaOne 2008 day -1: GlassFish un-conference
On Sunday, May 4 about 50 GlassFish users and developers got together to have some informal sessions about several GlassFish related topics. In the past weeks, anyone planning to attend these sessions got the chance to register themselves on the GlassFish un-conference wiki page. The page lists about 85 people, […]
GlassFish and AMIS present: GlassFish and OpenESB
In March 2006, NL-JUG (the Netherlands Java Users Group) and Sun Microsystemsorganized a University Session about GlassFish. Now, two years later, GlassFishhas evolved into much more than just an Open Source application server for JavaEE5. Using add-ons like OpenSSO, Hudson, Metro and OpenESB, GlassFish becomes arobust and highly scalable application […]
Generating graphs with JHeadstart
One of our recent buisiness cases required the availability of graph representations of data in an application generated with JHeadstart. At first I started out with JFreeChart and ChartCreator, until my colleague and former JHeadstart team memeber Peter Ebell advised me to use the graph generation capabilities of JHeadstart. The […]
Using a rich editor in ADF applications
About a year ago Frank Nimphius wrote this weblog article about using a rich text editor called openWYSIWYG in ADF applications. Recently we encountered the need for such an editor in one of our ADF applications. I found Franks article quite useful. However, I also found that I needed to […]
Integrating Seam with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish
The application that resulted from my previous article on Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish uses Hibernate for JPA and Facelets for JSF. This is an ideal situation to make the move to Seam. In the past few weeks I have spent some time on using Seam in GlassFish applications but I […]
Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish
Over the past weeks I have been exploring the possibilities of Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish. Two of my previous blog entries explain the basics of using Maven in Netbeans and how to deploy to GlassFish. By default, GlassFish uses Toplink Essentials for JPA. Also, Netbeans by default uses jsp files […]
Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2
Yesterday I wrote an article about Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2. The article explains how to setup your Netbeans projects to be able to generate an EAR file that can be deployed to GlassFish V2. The one thing missing from that article is […]
Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2
A few weeks ago an article appeared in the Netbeans Knowledge Base about how to get started with GlassFish V2, Maven2 and Netbeans 6.0. It is a great article doing exactly what the title says: getting you started with Maven2 in Netbeans 6.0 and deploying the project thus created to […]
GlassFish V2/9.1 FCS has been released
GlassFish is the first open source application server to have implemented the JEE specification. Basically it is the open source version of Sun Java System Application server. Last night I received an email from the users mailinglist of the GlassFish project that the second release of GlassFish has reached FCS […]
How to execute a search by pressing the ENTER key in UIX
Many end users are used to pressing enter after inserting one or more search terms in an HTML form. Many, if not most, online search engines support this. Unfortunately, search areas in UIX pages don’t. Having consulted both the Oracle JDeveloper forum and the Oracle JHeadstart forum, no solution for […]
Maven repository for Java EE 5 APIs
Those who use Maven for their project may be happy to hear that a Maven repository for the Java EE 5 APIs has been opened. For more info, see Ludovic Champenois’s blog.
JavaPolis 2006: two days down, one to go…
At the time of writing, I am at my second day of JavaPolis 2006. I attended several sessions, met many great people and did a Lab (workshop) on the OpenOffice.org Java API. Read on for more info.
AMIS to present an OOo lab on JavaPolis
JavaPolis is the largest Java event in Europe. On Friday, December 15, Juergen Schmidt will do a presentation about the OpenOffice.org Java API. In an attempt to become the speaker for this presentation I submitted my proposal too late. However, I was asked to do a lab on the API, […]
JFall 2006
On October 11, 2006, the Netherlands Java Users Group, NL-JUG, organised their biannual Java Conference. Since the second conference of this year was held in October, it was called JFall. In this weblog I will describe my experience of that day.
Connecting to an EJB 3.0 Remote SessionBean from Tomcat
At home I have a few machines running several services that have my interest: an Apache HTTPD server, Tomcat 5.5 and Oracle XE. Both Apache and Tomcat run on a slow machine that is connected to my ADSL router, while the Oracle XE database runs on a more poweful machine. […]
Free beer and Java talk
As can be read on the weblog of Alef Arendsen, Interface 21 organizes a Java Meetup in Amsterdam. This meetup will take place on Friday, September 29. Tomorrow at the time of this writing!
KC Web en Java: de OpenOffice.org Java API
Op donderdag 10 augustus presenteerde ik het KC Web en Java over de OpenOffice.org Java API. Klik hier om de presentatie te bekijken (ja, in Powerpoint formaat omdat ik niet verwacht dat je er speciaal OpenOffice.org voor gaat installeren). Bij de presentatie hoort natuurlijk een workshop en die kun je […]
The OpenOffice.org presentation I gave at J-Spring 2006
On June 15, 2006, the Netherlands Java Users Group (NL-JUG) organised the J-Spring 2006 Java Conference. During this conference I gave a presentation about the OpenOffice.org Java API. Have a look at these links to see the presentation and the files that are needed to run the demos: The OOo […]
Connecting to a webservice from an ADF application using JDeveloper 10.1.2
In the Netherlands, the addresses of houses are uniquely defined by their postal code and house number (is this correct English?). One of our customers wanted to have the street and city automagically determined by the house number and postal code using a webservice. This webservice is provided by www.webservices.nl […]
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part III : starting OpenOffice.org with jars not in the OOo install dir
One of the first things OOo developers learn is to make sure the juh.jar, jurt.jar, ridl.jar, sandbox.jar and unoil.jar files should be on the classpath and should be in the original directory they were installed in while installing OOo. On a Windows machine, this directory is C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.0\program and […]
Configuring a (Oracle) datasource on Glassfish
With Java EE 5 being final, application servers need to be upgraded to support features like EJB 3.0. In some cases, loading the Java EE 5 jars may be sufficient. But in most cases a fully Jave EE 5 compliant application server is needed. Enters Glassfish, the free, open source […]
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part II : some basic Writer operations
OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. Despite several small issues, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is capable of opening, modifying and saving Microsoft Office (MSO) documents. Besides that, OOo has a very powerfull PDF exporter.For Java developers, the most interesting part of OOo may be […]
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part I : connecting to OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. Despite several small issues, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is capable of opening, modifying and saving Microsoft Office (MSO) documents. Besides that, OOo has a very powerfull PDF exporter.For Java developers, the most interesting part of OOo may be […]