During a recent class I taught on ICEfaces, one of my students asked me why the calendar was often one day off from what got posted back to the model managed-bean setter. ... more »

This is my first blog post ever, so please excuse the formatting. Here it goes… Using the ICEfaces selectInputText component, combined with Glazed Lists, I was able to put together a simple auto completion implementation.... more »

Development of compelling JSF applications requires a good grasp of the JSF tag libraries. This chapter covers the core library and most of the HTML tags in the standard library.... more »

Standard JSF-enabled IDEs don't successfully bridge the gap between visual Web authoring and server-side Java programming. This article introduces JSFToolbox for Dreamweaver, a Web development tool that connects these two disciplines and promotes synergy between UI design and Java development teams.... more »

Craig McClanahan, Sun's Web 2.0 Architect for its Java Tools division and lead for Apache's Shale project, talks about JSF, Shale, development tools, and dynamic languages.... more »

was performing my daily visual scrubbing of the java.net website this morning and I found a blurb about a new JSF component library called Woodstock. I briefly visited the project homepage and tested a few of the components. It looks as though this library could be a promising addition to the list of component libraries available for the JSF framework. While some of the basic components such as buttons and labels do not seem too different from stuff we've seen before, the Woodstock library has "Alert" and "Image and Masthead" components which may be very useful.... more »

f you use ADF Data Bindings in your development to reduce the learning curve, when you will give a name to your Application Modules, name them carefully because you cannot rename them easily because the refactoring feature of JDeveloper does not support files other than .java files. Oracle has confirmed that this will be fixed in 11g.... more »

Last week, I wrote a news about an article I wrote on ADF Faces titled "10 reasons to choose ADF Faces" that has been published in the online magazine of the Montreal Oracle user group Ora*Gec recently (http://www.oragec.org/journal/ADFFaces/ADFFaces.html).... more »

ve just read a great blog promoting the Oracle ADF Faces framework. I am an advocate of ADF Faces and I've used it in many of the applications which I have written. The open-sourced Gather! reunion application uses a version of ADF Faces which Oracle has open-sourced to Apache. ... more »

Recently I got an opportunity to explore Spring Web FlowExternal Link framework. Later I came to know that Shale DialogExternal Link also solves the same problem. JBoss Seam too solves the same problem.... more »