Tuesday, July 22, 2014

JSF 2.3 on the Horizon

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Work on the  JavaServer Faces 2.3 Specification has begun.  According to the specification summary: This JSR aims to improve the clarity o...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

JavaOne 2014 On the Horizon

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This year, I submitted three proposals for the JavaOne conference, which takes place September 28 - October 2nd in San Francisco.  I am thr...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Developing a Data Export Utility with PrimeFaces

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My day job involves heavy use of data.  We use relational databases to store everything, because we rely on enterprise level data management...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

PrimeFaces 5.0 DataTable Column Toggler

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I have had an opportunity to work a bit with the PrimeFaces 5.0 DataTable, and the enhancements are great.  Today, I wanted to show just one...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Testing PrimeFaces 5.0RC1 with a Maven-Based Web Project in NetBeans 8.0 IDE

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The new PrimeFaces 5.0RC1 has been released!  Now it is time to begin testing the new release with your existing applications.  If you are u...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Resource Library Contracts with NetBeans 8 and PrimeFaces

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It is critical to organize an application in such a way that it is easy for users to navigate and perform their work.   PrimeFaces include...
Friday, March 21, 2014

GlassFish 4 - Let's Help as a Community

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We know that GlassFish 4 works with JDK8 , but it has not yet been officially sanctioned.  Let's help out as a community and test out Gl...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Running GlassFish 4 on Java 8: Experiment with Java 8 Functionality in Java EE 7 Applications

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Do you want to use the features of Java 8 with your Java EE 7 application?  It is possible to run GlassFish 4.0 under JDK 8.  To explicitly ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

JavaOne 2014 Call for Proposals

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The  JavaOne 2014 CFP  is available.  If you have an idea for a presentation that you think others will enjoy, please put in a proposal to s...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Five Favorite NetBeans Features

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Geertjan Wielenga invited to me to share five of my favorite NetBeans features with Oracle.  Here is the article that I wrote on those featu...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

JavaOne 2013 - Starting Off Strong

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The past two days have been packed with great sessions, and I believe that this year's JavaOne is going very well so far.  After my init...
Friday, June 07, 2013

Java EE 7 Books: Java EE 7 Recipes & Introducing Java EE 7

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I have been working hard for over a year now on my most recent publication entitled 'Java EE 7 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach'...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Java EE 7 by JSR

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The following is a listing of JSRs that are contained in the Java EE 7 Specification. Java EE Platform Specification - http://java.net/pro...