The complete title for this JavaOne 2007 BOF was Ingredients for a Killer Application – Adding Mojo to Your Swing and Ajax Applications with Seamless Web Browser Integration. Wow, what a mouthful. It might not be immediately clear from the title but the focus of this BOF was the use of the JDesktop [...]
During this Bird of a Feather session Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, Distinguished Engineer at Sun, covered similar material as the slides presented during the GlassFish Day at Community One. The key take aways from the BOF was that GlassFish is a production quality application server. GlassFish also enjoys plenty of support from third-party vendors and [...]
This JavaOne 2007 technical session, Tricks and Tips with NIO – Using the Grizzly Framework, provided some general advice when working with the NIO classes. The most important piece of advice was to use the Grizzly Framework. The Grizzly project hides the programming complexity of using NIO so that developers can focus on [...]
Wayne Beaton, Eclipse Foundation evangelist, gave an overview of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). As he spoke, I thought of Eclipse RCP as a Fat Client minus the lard. Wayne described a Rich Client Platform as a system that provides a rich user experience, is platform independent and extensible, and provides a component model.
The [...]
This is one of the most enjoyable session in all of JavaOne. Last years Extreme GUI Makeover, the gang made over a typical looking mail client. This year Christopher Campbell, Shannon Hickey, Hans Muller, and Romain Guy presented transformed a pizza box-like business User Interface (UI) into a visually stunning UI with Swing and [...]
This technical JavaOne 2007 session was presented by Kito Mann, author of JavaServer Faces in Action, and Chris Richardson, author of POJOs in Action. Kito and Chris talked about the holy trinity of Java-based web application development, JavaServer Faces (JSF), Spring, and Hibernate.
JSF is a server-side UI component/event model with a basic set of [...]