It's been over a year since I first wrote about Seam and enough has changed over that time to provide a refresh of the entry. Last month JBoss released version 4.2 of its application server, a release JBoss refers to as a "stepping stone from JBoss 4.0 to JBoss 5.0". One notable difference with JBoss 4.2 is that is now uses the JSF Reference Implementation from GlassFish rather than the Apache MyFaces implementation, which makes porting an application between the 2 servers all the more straight-forward.... more »

The Rails framework comes bundled with the Prototype and Scriptaculous Javascript libraries. In this entry I'll introduce how to use those libraries in a Rails application.... more »

So, REST based web services are simpler than SOAP, right? Then why's it so difficult to create a REST based web service in Java? Using tools I can crank out a SOAP based web service in seconds - not so easy with REST. But help is on the way.... more »

This tutorial describes how to create a blog in less than 10 minutes. This tutorial runs with NetBeans IDE 6.0 (M10) with Ruby support.... more »

We are in the process of planning the documentation for NetBeans Ruby and would like to know what information you are interested in. Is there a certain tutorial that you want? Is there a video that you would like to see? Please let us know what information would help you better complete your job, and we will add it to our documentation plan wiki. Feel free to edit the wiki and add your own document requests.... more »

The jMaki team keeps making great changes to the technology, but sometimes it is hard to keep up with all the changes. I have finally gotten a working version of the latest jMaki-wrapped Spry Accordion. I think that this API will be stable for awhile, so now is a good time to post some instructions on how to use the Spry Accordion in a NetBeans 5.5.1 Visual Web project using the latest NetBeans jMaki plug-in (1.6.9.9.9.5), which bundles jMaki 0.9.7.... more »

Yesterday, in our blog entry about using the Spry Accordion widget, we mentioned that it uses the same data model as the tabbed view and that you would swap out widgets. Today I will show you how simple it is to do so.... more »

I downloaded the new development version of NetBeans 6.0 (actually in M10) just for the kicks. I wanted to see if the new Ruby on Rails editing was any good, and I was recently surprised so. But not so much for the excellent Rails support, but rather for the new SWING look.... more »

Finally, the entry about PHP. Well, I don't think PHP needs to be introduced, but, on the other hand, some of you might not know yet that there is a Java 100% PHP 5 implementation called Quercus, from the sameguys that provide the Resin application server (Caucho Technologies). Quercus not only implements the core PHP 5 but also many extensions and it even allows you to integrate your Java code with it, so here we go with our example:... more »

Oh well, the next entry was supposed to be about PHP, but thanks to a comment from Suhail Manzoor about the JavaScript version, I found out another way to do it without using concatenation of strings. So here it is the second version using JavaScript (Rhino) but this time we will use ECMAScript for XML (E4X) to build the XML more easily.... more »