Category: Frontend technology
One of the new features in Java 5 that clearly stands out is called: Annotations (JSR-175). Through Annotations, we can add metadata to our Java sources, not just as …
J2EE contains a plethora of API definitions. From the Servlet API to the EJB API, from JMX to JMS. One of the APIs that I have had very little …
In a previous article, Introduction to Blackbox testing of Web Applications using Selenium I have introduced Selenium, a framework for Web Application testing – any HTML/JavaScript Web Application, regardless …
After my visit tot JavaPolis, in December 2005, I wrote a brief article on Selenium, a tool for testing Web Applications. For one of our internal Knowledge Center Sessions …
Gisteren, donderdag 9 februari, hadden we een uitstekende bijeenkomst rondom EJB 3.0 Persistence API. Met z’n 16-en – waarvan twee geïnteresseerde externen – hebben we in goed drie uur …
This is the fourth installment in a series of four on the concept of Post Loading Resources into an HTML document after the document itself has been loaded. Using …
AJAX opens up a lot of possibilities – that in truth by and large already existed pre-AJAX. In a series of articles, I am discussing the concept of post …
In a previous article – Ajax-based Post Loading of resources in HTML pages – for reuse of resources and fast user feedback – I have introduced the concept of …
This article discusses a generic method for Post Loading Resources in HTML pages. What do I mean by that? Just as your browser will fire additional requests, to potentially …
Service Oriented Architecture is the Architecture Design Pattern of today. Using standard WebService interfaces for functionality published by legacy applications to external consumers, we can easily reuse such functionality …
Creating pretty graphics – or any meaningful graphics at all – in web applications is an important issue. Visual information as well as illustration makes applications more appealing and …
While working on Rich HTML clients that could retrieve information from various sources on different web-servers using multiple AJAX requests, I came across the AJAXSLT project from Google Code. …
AJAX is hot, great and will make the world a better place. We all know that. However, AJAX has some limitations. AJAX is about making additional HttpRequests from the …
We have been using JIRA for our Incident Management the last six months or so, and one of the UI features in JIRA that suddenly struck me as being …
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
The proper way to start OC4J is sparsely documented by Oracle: To start OC4J in a standalone environment, issue the following command from the j2ee/home/ directory: java -jar …
In the wake of my last post – Getting started with Java Server Faces (JSF) using Apache MyFaces – in JDeveloper 10.1.3EA – I will continue my explorations of …
Seen so much, heard so much, read so much: time to actually do a little with Apache MyFaces. I am using the blog article by Jonas Jacobi as my …
Just browsing through my RSS feeds-reader, I stumbled across three very interesting announcements: JSR-220, the Enterprise JavaBean 3.0 specification, has reached Proposed Final Draft status. Programmers should expect that …
Since SOA is hot, many presentations were devoted to differents aspects of services. The adoptation of services is growing rapidly. This requires standarization in the way we handle services …
Many frameworks offer support for developing web applications. Allmost all of them implement the MVC pattern. They can be divided into two groups: action based and component based frameworks. …
Selenium, a test-tool for Web Applications, was the subject of one of the quicky presentations (15 minutes max) on JavaPolis this week. It is described as: Selenium is a …
A big announcement today at the first day of JavaPolis 2005, the biggest Java event east of the Atlantic: Oracle will donate its ADF Faces technology to the Open …
The lastest session of the KC Web and Java focussed on what we call knowledge areas. Everybody got about ten minutes to present his/her subject and to share his/her …
In this article I will demonstrate how I implemented a fairly complex requirement from one of my customers in a very real Java/J2EE Web Application. This requirement involved a …
As of now, JHeadstart 10.1.2.2 is available from http://cso.oracle.com – for organisations who have the JHeadstart Supplement Option. I have recently been making fixes and extensions to JHeadstart Application …
From last week's JFall conference I picked four of the most interesting sessions I visited to report on: Combining the Power of MDA and OCL: Generating Java Code from …
With some of my collegues I attended JFall, one of the two yearly conferences of the NLJUG. I visited the presentations on Mule, Wicket, Spring WebFlow and the newly …
At some point during the last year I had gotten the impression that Geronimo was dead. It had missed its scheduled release date – and no new date or …
It is not yet a production release, but hey: who cares when you see what it contains in terms of new functionality. Apart from the UIX design time support …
I just googled across this open source project. It is relatively simple, but can be quite useful. Its demos are at any rate useful, if only for the JavaScript …
Over the past period I have written several articles on AJAX – the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML mechanism for dynamically updating a web-page based on background communication with the …
The problem I am dealing with: downloading all data that is potentially to be displayed in the client – for example in SELECT LISTS – takes too long to …
I just came across an article that very clearly introduces AJAX: An Introduction To Ajax Recently I did an internal presentation Enhancing Web Applications with AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, UIX – …
(this event on JSF and ADF Faces will take place in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands and will be Dutch-spoken. Hence this announcement in Dutch) AMIS Query: Java Server Faces, van …
Following the Search Plugins for askTom and Oracle Docs, I created a search plugin for the Amis Technology Blog. Installation: Simply unzip the Amis Search Plugin in the Searchplugin …
Today I read this very interesting article by Chris Schalk – responsible for the Web application development features within Oracle JDeveloper- TheServerSide.com – Building Custom JSF UI Components. Chris …
I was kindly requested recently to do a brief – and it was stressed several times that it really had to be brief, not something I am particularly well-known …
Today I discovered GreaseMonkey mozdev.org – greasemonkey: home. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any web page to change …
Interesting thread on Experts Exchange, on how to develop a standard facility to do debugging inside web-pages: JavaScript: How to print log messages to Firefox JavaScript console in my …