Tag: Java
Seam is Dead, Long live Seam
With Weld 1.0, the reference implementation of JSR 299 – Java Contexts and Dependency Injection now released, attention at JBoss has no doubt turned to Seam 3 which is going to be built on top of Weld. Red Hat and JBoss are committed to returning innovations back the JCP as is the case with Seam […]
Continue Reading...Conversational Pitfalls
Seam conversations have certain rules that you need to be aware of when using them. This article came about because for the last couple of years, the same questions have been asked on the Seam forums regarding conversations. It is also a couple of issues that cropped up while I was working on the Seam […]
Continue Reading...Glassfish, Netbeans and JSF 2.0 Test Drive
I’ve spent some time in the last couple of weeks playing around with Glassfish, Netbeans 6.8 Beta (and milestone 2 before it) and JSF 2.0, and I have to say that this is turning out to be a really good set of development libraries and tools.
Continue Reading...Logging Conversation Demarcation In Seam
One way to see where your conversations start and end is to use the Seam event model to observe the conversation start and ends. Just add this bean into your project and it will automatically log when you start and end conversations.
Continue Reading...Notes On Choosing A Web Framework
I’m looking at starting a new project and once again find myself choosing between frameworks. Having spent some time evaluating different ones I wrote up some notes to share and get some feedback that might alter my thoughts or opinions. Here’s the criteria I’m using to choose a framework in no particular order.
Continue Reading...Glass Button Tutorial – In Java
Create glass effect buttons using nothing but Java code and JTexGen, a procedural texture library for Java. First create a new project in your favorite IDE and add the JTextGen jar file, or create a new maven project and add the JTexgen dependency if you installed it from the source distribution into your local repository.
Continue Reading...JTexGen – Procedural Texture Library Released
Download Here I have finally found the time to finally release my library for creating procedural textures called JTexGen under the LGPL license. It is a framework for rendering and viewing procedural textures which you can then use as images, backgrounds and textures for modelling. Because the textures are procedural, you can ramp up the […]
Continue Reading...Seam vs Spring Web Flow – vs Wicket
In the fifth part of this four part series, I decided to give a non-conversational framework a try and implemented the same application with Wicket which is a semi-stateless framework. (update : If you have already read the previous version only chapter 5 is new and has the Wicket example and final comparison.) Enjoy, HTML […]
Continue Reading...Open Source is Hard
I’ve been working on getting my procedural texture library completed and released to the public which should be ready next week. I’m currently going through the difficulties that always go with getting that last bit of polish on a project to get it ready for public consumption. In particular, I’ve just switched over to maven […]
Continue Reading...Writing Multi-Maven Module Hibernate JPA Web apps
Here’s a couple of links regarding building Multi Module Apps with the Hibernate JPA Implementation. It was a subject I was starting to look at and these two articles just happened to cover both areas that I was interested in. Thought I’d share them and if nothing else, I know where to find them the […]
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