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JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse: suggest features, try nightly builds

max — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:21:36 +0000

With the launch of exadel.org, it’s now very easy to try nightly builds of JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse, and view and submit new bugs. Using Jira (or the forum), you can tell us what features you would like to see in JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse. Our plan is to have a very short release cycle, around 2 weeks. We will fix bugs and add a few minor features each release. Let us know what features you would like to see!

RichFaces rich:isUserInRole function

max — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:22 +0000

I blogged earlier about four built-in RichFaces functions that come in very handy, especially the rich:component(id) one. Many rich components (from rich;* tag library) provide client-side JavaScript API. To access this API, you need to use rich:component(id) and add the JavaScript method name, such as: #{rich:component(‘id’)}.someMethod(). For example, go to rich:listShuttle component in RichFaces Developers Guide and scroll to ReferenceData/JavaScript API section. That’s the JavaScript API you can call on this component.

There is one more, less known function available in RichFaces. It’s called rich:isUserInRole(role). It lets you define security roles in web.xml file and then use the role on a page. For example, suppose only the administrator should see some part of a page:

 header="Admin panel" rendered="#{rich:isUserInRole('admin')}">
  Very sensitive information
>
 
 header="User panel">
   General information
>

In the above example, unless you were authenticated as ‘amdin’, you will not see the top panel. Of course you need the security role in web.xml file. It’s a nice and handy feature to have available.

JBoss Tools 3.1 is now out

max — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:07:26 +0000

JBoss Tools team released JBoss Tools version 3.1 this week. It’s the best IDE for doing enterprise Java development with JSF, RichFaces, Seam, JPA, Hibernate more. You now get JSF2 as well as CDI support. You may or may not have known but over 50% of code in JBoss Tools is being written by Exadel team. I want to thank them for doing an amazing job! It’s an excellent set of tools that really makes enterprise Java development much easier.

Using BIRT and Actuate with JSF, RichFaces

max — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:05 +0000

Virgil Dodson from Actuate posted a great tutorial on how to use BIRT and Actuate with JSF. RichFaces is used as well. The tutorial uses jsf4birt library developed by Exadel.

jsf4birt can be downloaded here.

JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse version 1.2.2 is now available

max — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:38:54 +0000

With the launch of exadel.org, we also made a new version of JavaFX plug-in available, version 1.2.2. Download the new version here.

In addition to bug fixing, it has the following new features:

New JavaFX Script Wizard
Outline View with navigation

As we have been promising, the plug-in is now open source (under GPL). You can download the sources, access project Jira and post questions and comments to new forum all from www.exadel.org.

exadel.org – Exadel’s open source community and projects

max — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:46:45 +0000

I’m happy to announce that our open source community and projects web site exadel.org is now live. It also hosts its first project: JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse. Why did we create this web site? Exadel always had a number of projects available on its site for download, most of them are free. One of the biggest challenges for users was to get involved. Even though most products were open source, it wasn’t easy to get the source code. The actual download was hosted on exadel.com, support forum for each project was hosted on Google Groups, and there was no way to enter any bugs. There was a big disconnect. exadel.org will try to solve all this, it will provide everything you would expect from man open source site and community. Everything is integrated now, you get product download, source code, forum and Jira to enter bugs. Our goal is to make it as simple as possible to get involved and use our products.

exadel.org is still work in progress. We are planning to move more projects there in the near future. We would love to hear your feedback, let us know what we can do better!

JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse has been updated as well, it’s now version 1.2.2 with the following new feature:

New JavaFX Script Wizard
Outline View with navigation

I’ll have a separate blog post about the plug-in.

Android M-Commerce client by Exadel

max — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:45:20 +0000

Exadel has a new Android M-Commerce client. Read more here.

Webinar recording: Add BIRT Reporting to JSF Applications Using RichFaces

max — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:25:14 +0000

Add BIRT Reporting to JSF Applications using RichFaces recording is available here. You can also download the complete application I showed during the webinar here.

RichFaces 4, JSF 2

max — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:18:58 +0000

Last week I attended, presented and taught 1-day workshop at JSFdays conference in Vienna, Austria. The conference was great and I’m already looking forward to next year. What’s amazing, virtually everyone I spoke with was using or planning to use RichFaces. One of the most frequent questions I was asked is when RichFaces 4 will be available? Although, I’m not in position to confirm this, it’s safe to guess that 4.0 GA will be available sometime in mid-summer. The RichFaces team has been working on JSF 2 support in RichFaces for some time now. First, there is RichFaces 4 Alpha 1. The team is now working on Alpha 2 which is also going to be the last Alpha release. Second, there is now RichFaces 3.3.3 CR1 also with basic JSF 2 support (read more about this version here).

As you probably know, JSF 2 Ajax support is greatly inspired by RichFaces 3.x and more specifically the a4j:support tag. RichFaces 4 is not going to stop here, it’s going to add advanced features from version 3.x plus some new features on top of standard JSF 2 Ajax support. Here is RichFaces 4 road map by Jay Balunas which also contains a list of new and improved features in RichFaces 4.

RichFaces in the cloud

max — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:27:44 +0000

Learn how to run RichFaces applications in the cloud.