Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Category: Java, JavaScript
I am always fascinated that no matter how shiny the OS, sooner or later you’ll end up typing things into a text console to get the darn machine to do what you want it to. To make matters worse you also have to resort to languages that you don’t use every day but are from Read the rest…
Friday, March 27th, 2009
We recently posted on Atmosphere, a new framework designed to provide an abstraction layer over Comet back-ends for Java web applications. At a personal level, this comes at an interesting time as over in the Mozilla Labs we’re evaluating different Comet approaches for our upcoming collaboration release. As we looked at various options, we come Read the rest…
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Jean-Francois Arcand announced a new Java-based framework that clients can code against for portable Comet support: Atmosphere 0.1-ALPHA1 is now officially released and support Tomcat, Jetty, Grizzly and GlassFish. Finally a Comet/Ajax Push framework you can build on top of it and deploy everywhere! One of the cool features of this release is that it Read the rest…
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Category: Framework, GWT
, Java
With the release of IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0, the server-side RIA framework is now ready for production. I announced the initial release of 5.0 back in December of 2007. Since that time, IT Mill 5 has gone through several revisions and the release of GWT 1.5 (which means you can use Java 5 now on Read the rest…
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Category: Conferences, Java
TheServerSide.com’s Java Symposium kicks off in less than 2 weeks! Our sister site has put together an impressive lineup of speakers and over 45 tech sessions and case studies that you should know about, like Identifying Browser Problems in Ajax Apps, Meet-up for Selenium, soapUI, HtmlUnit and Other Test Tools and much more. And if you haven’t heard, Ajaxian members Read the rest…
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Mozilla
Sometimes you find leftovers of old technology in browsers that blow your mind. One of these “ghost in the machine” problems exists in Firefox: if you use window.sun or function sun() in JavaScript you effectively start the Java VM. There are a few “magic” properties on Mozilla’s DOMWindow interface for supporting LiveConnect that will initialize Read the rest…
Monday, February 9th, 2009
Category: Conferences, Java
This Friday is the LAST CHANCE for Ajaxian readers to save $200 off TheServerSide Java Symposium, an event hosted by our sister site TheServerSide.com. Every little bit helps in this economy – register today with the code AJAXIAN to pay only $1495 for the conference, coming to Las Vegas March 18-20. You don’t want to miss: Read the rest…
Category: Java
Jerome Denanot has created CP2JavaWS, an open source “bridge between Cappuccino rich desktop applications and Java services deployed on a web server. It consists of a proxy (client side) and a servlet (server side), and manages parameters namespace, encoding, ordering and JSONP.” Jerome told us more: Full objects graphs are supported for services method’s arguments Read the rest…
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Category: Conferences, Java
Hello Ajaxians! We’re inviting all of the Java developers out there to an event organized by our sister site, TheServerSide.com, the Web’s largest enterprise Java community. As a member of Ajaxian, you save an extra $100 off the registration fee with the code AJAXIAN. (Register before January 16 to save a total of $400 and Read the rest…
Friday, December 19th, 2008
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Library
Joe Walker and team have announced the first RC for DWR 3.0. We asked Joe to tell us what is new: DWR now supports: varargs method overloading typed parameters binary file upload/download it has a set of new types it can marshall DWR will let you use JavaScript to implement Java interfaces (e.g. to register Read the rest…
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Mobile
Jeffrey Sharkey has created OilCan a thin wrapper on top of the WebKit shipping on Android that allows you to install userscripts that allow you to access to Android “Intents”. Intents are very nice abstractions that allow you to access large components and reuse them in different ways. Romain Guy has a nice post on Read the rest…
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Category: Java, JavaScript
The UML diagram above is from Matt Prokes as he creates Java-like interfaces for JavaScript. He has a full example: An example of an object which requires an implementation of the interface. < View plain text > javascript //This code is valid, and the execution will be successful. function executeInterface1(executeThis){ var castedIface = executeThis.cast(‘TestInterface’); Read the rest…
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Rodrigo Reyes has announced a new project called AbstractCanvas, a GWT project that sits on top of HTML Canvas and Java2D. The same code can thus run in the browser, or on the server. You can then write code such as: VerticalPanel vPanel = new VerticalPanel(); CanvasPanelExt canvas1 = new CanvasPanelExt(300,150); canvas1.setFillStyle(Color.WHITE); canvas1.setGlobalAlpha(1.0); canvas1.fillRect(0, 0, Read the rest…
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Category: Java
It really is plugin week isn’t it. We had Flash and Silverlight, so it was time for Java to pop its head up from the shadows, and that is what happened with the production release of Java 6 Update 10. It has to be one of the worst version names, but a solid plugin release Read the rest…
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Category: Google, GWT
, Java
, Library
I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete: GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you’re counting. We’re also happy that one of those is issue Read the rest…
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Category: Java
Dave Kuhn has put together a comprehensive guide to piecing together GWT and Spring, a nice recipe for the Java heads among you. Dave starts out by detailing why you would want to do this, and how it changes the architecture of your application. He then gets to a tutorial that has you creating the Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
