What is the Appeal of Ajax and GWT? published on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:14:48 +0000
Ajax does have its detractors. Their argument goes as follows: Why reinvent everything that has already been done on the desktop on an inferior platform? I do agree that the attraction of Ajax is subjective (i.e., not ba...
E4 ? A New Area For RCP/RIA Applications published on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:35:50 +0000
I?m on the road to prepare my example for the E4 talk I?m delivering on the Eclipse-Developers-Day in Karlsruhe and I have to say that in my eyes E4 is going to open up a new world for Eclipse-RCP-Developers. ...
Caught Between Two IDEs published on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:05:35 +0000
I seem to be caught between two IDEs: Eclipse and IntelliJ. I abandoned Eclipse a couple of years back, partly based on wide spread recommendations from many different people, and partly because Eclipse just stopped work...
Continuations to Continue published on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:55:41 +0000
Jetty-6 Continuations introduced the concept of asynchronous servlets to provide scalability and quality of service to web 2.0 applications such as chat, collaborative editing, price publishing, as well as powering HTTP ...
Ajax Push for OpenSocial published on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:02:33 +0000
At CommunityOne, Chris Schalk and I presented our ideas on how to integrate Ajax Push with OpenSocial: Developing Sleek and Collaborative Applications with OpenSocial and AJAX Push. ...
What is New with Apache Pivot? published on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:05:40 +0000
It has been a while since I have written about Pivot, so I thought I would put together a quick entry to highlight a few of the things we have been working on recently (Apache Pivot is a platform for building rich intern...
Three Forms of RESTEasy Client published on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:15:31 +0000
RESTEasy comes in three forms of client APIs: JAX-RS annotated Interface proxying Lower level fluid HTTP API ClientRequestFactory - generates #1 and #2, and has a get template method The ClientRequestFactory e...
Galileo Podcast Series: CDO with Eike Stepper and Ed Merks published on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:58:46 +0000
56:46 minutes (51.98 MB)As part of the Galileo podcast series, I had a chat with Eike Stepper, lead of the CDO Model Repository project, with special guest Ed Merks - the lead of the Eclipse Modelling project. We discuss...
Source Code is a Corporate Asset published on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:49:50 +0000
The goal of software development is to - SURPRISE! - deliver software. Fancy architecture diagrams, detailed requirements documentation, and comprehensive project plans mean little if we can?t deliver the software that r...
An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two published on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:48:54 +0000
Previously we gave an introduction to functional languages. Now we take a look at some functional programming examples with F#. James Sugrue...
NetBeans 6.7 Finally Released published on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:49:55 +0000
Since today the final version of NetBeans 6.7 can be downloaded here. And do not forget to look here for a feature overview. If you tried the release candidates of 6.7 you will welcome all the new features! Great work! W...
Getting Started with Xtext published on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:12:20 +0000
Xtext has been released as a part of the Eclipse Galileo release train on June 24th, 2009. Xtext is a framework for building DLSs (domain specific languages). In fact, it can be seen as a DSL for defining DSLs. In this ...
JavaFX and Seam with Flamingo: Part Two published on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:12:36 +0000
This is a second part of the JavaFX and Seam with Flamingo article series. Building on the background information from the first part of the article, this second part provides a step-by-step tutorial for building a JavaF...
Eclipse-Databinding 3.5 for GWT published on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:16:18 +0000
I?m a big fan of GWT but one of the real pain points when developing GWT applications is that there?s no databinding framework available to synchronize your domain objects and UI-Widgets. As many of you know I?m an even...
FISL 2009: Day 3... Cybercrime law is equivalent to censorship published on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:53:26 +0000
One of the unquestionable highlights of Day 3 at FISL, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was President Lula (i.e., the president of Brazil) dropping by. (Read about Day 1 here and Day 2 here.)...
