Author: Wouter van Reeven

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …