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Creating JSF applications with JRuby and ActiveRecord-JDBC (Part 1)

Rogério Araújo — 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Is there any way to create JSF applications using scripting languages and its own persistence engines? The answer is: Yes! After some hours trying to integrate JSF + JRuby + ActiveRecord I finally could get a very simple application working, this applicat...

Creating JSF applications with JRuby and ActiveRecord-JDBC (Part 2)

Rogério Araújo — 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

My last article about this topic showed how can we start the development of an JSF webapp with JRuby and ActiveRecord-JDBC, we will discuss on this article how can we create the dao, domain class and the view used to show costumer data.

In this exampl...

JSF 2.0 Update

Ed Burns — 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Here's an ultra quick update on where the JSR-314 Expert Group is with JSF 2.0 developments. Everything relating to JSF 2.0 Expert Group developments is subject to change until the Proposed Final Draft version of the spec is released.

The ever resourc...

JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series (Part 2.2): Resources

Ryan Lubke — 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

This is the third blog in the JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series. The previous entry covered packaging of resources. Now we'll cover the APIs that back this feature. Keep in mind that none of the features described are final, and may change, but this i...

JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series (Part 2.1): Resources

Ryan Lubke — 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

This is the second blog in the JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series. The previous entry covered ProjectStage, now we'll cover Resources. Keep in mind that none of the features described are final, and may change, but this is a good opportunity to show the ...

JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series (Part 1): ProjectStage

Ryan Lubke — 25 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

This will be the first of a small series of blogs covering proposed new features in JSF 2.0. Keep in mind that none of the features described are final, and may change, but this is a good opportunity to show the features as they exist now and illicit feed...

ICEfaces and Spring 2.5 in Java EE

Henry Roswell — 21 Feb 2008 07:30:00 GMT

ICEFaces is a JSF component library that adds a unique approach to AJAX: it renders a DOM (Document Object Model) on the serverside, and delivers changes to that DOM to a client via AJAX push. What this means is that data can be updated from one client...

JSF catches Swing as the number one GUI component model for Java

Rick Hightower — 01 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

JSF is up there with Swing as the number one GUI component model for Java (indeed.com: currently JSF is ahead by almost 1/3). JSF did well in 2007. Let's put it this way: If job demand for the Struts framework and JSF were a stocks and you invested in it ...

Nobody Uses JavaServer Faces

Matt Long — 01 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

So, I’m going to take a quick detour from Cocoa development for a moment as at my day job I am working on a Java project. The application simply displays a list of items on the first page and then provides a link for each item to a details page. It’s p...

Project Mojarra - the JSF RI gets a code name

Ryan Lubke — 20 Dec 2007 01:00:00 GMT

Many of you may remember the efforts we went through many months ago to poll the user community to find a good name for the JSF RI. After several attempts, a name has been decided upon that passed the scrutiny of the Sun legal department, so we are excit...