In this article we show how to develop and test an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) application with both a client and a server part, using the free standards-based development tools from the Nokia Siemens Networks IMS Developer Program and BEA WebLogic SIP Server (WLSS). The IMS is a complex environment but with the right tools, that complexity becomes manageable, and end-to-end tests can be made even on a single PC.... 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 »

Secure Programming with Static Analysis authors, Chess and West, discuss whether the C programming language is safer than Java from their perspective on using Static Analysis in code review testing. ... 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 »

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 »