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 »

I am a little bit behind...but I've just recently read the article in the Netbeans Magazine May 2007 edition regarding Netbeans 6.0. It is an excellent article. If you are looking for a good resource to learn the newest features of the IDE then I definitely recommend giving it a read!... more »

Seam 2.0 works with Netbeans 6.0 M10 and the Netbeans Seam plugin. I've spent some time preparing an application based upon some of the examples given in the Seam 2.0 documentation.... more »

I've come up with some simple steps for migrating a JBoss SEAM application from Glassfish V1 to Glassfish V2. Actually, you can configure all SEAM applications which you plan on deploying to Glassfish in this manner, and they will be deployable on either V1 or V2.... more »

Being a big fan of the EJB 3.0 specification, I read this new EJB 3.1 New Features article published by Serverside right away. Clearly, the current EJB spec is much simpler to use and maintain than previous generations. Building upon that logic, the upcoming EJB 3.1 specification looks even better.... more »

I finished reading the JavaFX Script book by James Weaver a couple of days ago. I ordered this book from Amazon last November, and it just arrived last month. I have to say that I was getting a bit impatient about the delay, but it really was worth the wait.... more »

I've downloaded the latest Netbeans 6.1 beta release and installed it on my Mac today. I haven't had too much time to work with it as yet, but thus far I have found the following to be nice:... more »