Posted by: Max Katz on 09/02/2010

RichFaces 4 is one more milestone closer to GA. This week JBoss and Exadel teams have released RichFaces 4 Milestone 2. This milestone includes: New components: accordion, autocomplete, inplaceInput, and inputNumberSlider Large scale stabilization to our core and CDK modules. The RichFaces Showcase Demo now includes all the components Support for cloud deployment is coming For more details, head to this post by Jay Balunas. There is more information on Milestone 3 plans as... more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 09/01/2010

One of the neat features in Exadel Tiggr mockup creation and sharing tool is dynamic widgets. Let me explain. Let’s say you have a tab panel with three tabs. Different content goes into the three tabs. When designing mockups, there is no simple way to show what content/widgets go into the first tab, the second and so on. With Tiggr is very simple because the tab widget is dynamic. In other words, you can click on the tab and switch between them. This way you can place different... more »

Posted by: Matthias Wessendorf on 08/31/2010

A few month ago I started to play with Apache HBase, Apache’s Bigtable implementation. Since the Bigtable impl. from the Google AppEngine (->Datastore) can be accessed with JPA, I searched for a way to use HBase with JPA as well. Fortunately there is an easy: The DataNuculeus plugin (used by Google AppEngine) does have support for Apache HBase as well. Over the time I noticed that folks are searching for “JPA HBase” are coming to my blog. As of now there is a SIMPLE... more »

Posted by: Pete Muir on 08/31/2010

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/31/2010

Exadel Tiggr links for 2010-08-31: Exadel Tiggr Mockups (via Hobione’s Weblog) Interview with Andrey Komolov more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/27/2010

RichFaces 3 webinar series with slides and actual webinar recordings (at the end of this post). Introduction to RichFaces View more presentations from Max Katz. RichFaces: more concepts and features View more presentations from Max Katz. RichFaces: rich:* component library View more presentations from Max Katz. RichFaces skins View more presentations from Max Katz. Webinar recordings: Starting with RichFaces March 24, 2009 More RichFaces Features and... more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/26/2010

If you are working on mockups for your application, then drop your pencil and try Exadel Tiggr. Tiggr is a web-based collaboration platform for creating and sharing mockups online. If you are working with a customer or a remote team, it’s the perfect tool to collaborate on UI design. If you need any help or have questions, head to http://getsatisfaction.com/exadel. more »

Posted by: Pete Muir on 08/26/2010

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/24/2010

Interesting write-up on present and future of JavaFX by Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein. I had two posts on this topic JavaFX… does it have a future? (mentioned by Osvaldo) and JavaFX… it does have a future. more »

Posted by: Pete Muir on 08/24/2010

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/23/2010

If you are planning to attend Herbstcampus conference in Nuremberg, September 12-15, use this URL to get 25% discount. Alternatively, you can use this booking code: ceHioRcpiD. I’m will be doing a RichFaces 4 workshop as well as two regulation session during the conference. More information. more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/19/2010

JSF 2 now has basic Ajax support via f:ajax tag. RichFaces 3 has a very popular a4j:support tag (in fact, f:ajax was inspired by a4j:support). RichFaces 4 comes with a4j:ajax which is based on f:ajax but upgrades the tag with more features and advanced functionality. The table below show the attributes available in both tags and how RichFaces upgrades the core Ajax functionality in JSF 2 (I’ll cover a4j:ajax extra attributes in the future). In addition to a4j:ajax, RichFaces... more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/19/2010

Exadel released new JavaFX Plug-in for Eclipse version 1.3.5. The two major features are: Setting VM parameters for JavaFX application Option to specify custom JNLP arguments To download the latest version or install via Eclipse update, go to http://exadel.org/javafxplugin. There are also a number of bug fixes and more improvements to the application launcher. You can see what else changed in the Release Notes (make sure to read changes about launch configuration). To see... more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/18/2010

Exadel Flamingo now has support for CDI (JSR299) and Bean Validation (JSR303). You can try the features from a nightly build. The following features are supported so far: Calling CDI bean methods Support for EL (Expression Language). Bind to values and invoke methods with EL in JavaFX CDI conversations Bean Validation (JSR303) To download a nightly build, go to http://exadel.org/flamingo and click on Nightly builds on the right. To get started with JavaFX and CDI/Bean... more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/16/2010

RichFaces 4 is not only JSF 2 based, but also undergoing a major upgrade on the framework level. Many components are being rewritten to increase performance, reduce markup size, and make them consistent across the board. RichFaces 4 is a major upgrade and brings many improvements: All JavaScript is now based on jQuery Ajax framework improvements extending the JSF 2 specification Component review for consistency, usability, and redesign following semantic HTML principles Both... more »

Posted by: Max Katz on 08/12/2010

I will be presenting and teaching a RichFaces workshop in Nuremberg, Germany during Herbstcampus conference, September 12 – September 15, 2010. With the upcoming RichFaces 4 release, the workshop will cover RichFaces version 4. This is a great opportunity to learn standard JSF 2 Ajax features and how RichFaces 4 advanced features, tags, customization and richness add on top of JSF 2. RichFaces 4 is a major upgrade. A lot of core functionality is being rewritten to make RichFaces... more »

Posted by: Stan Silvert on 08/11/2010

A Small Release with Big ConsequencesJSFUnit 1.3.0 is out. There are only three interesting changes:A new API call on RichFacesClient for Drag and DropUpdates for compatibility with HtmlUnit 2.8One JSFUnit bug fixThe Drag and Drop thing is nice. And HtmlUnit 2.8 fixes a LOT of the bugs from 2.7, several of which were reported by the JSFUnit community.But the big story is the one tiny JSFUnit bug fix submitted by Aslak Knudsen. You see, that fix enables JSFUnit to integrate with... more »

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