doobries domain

Last week saw the first release of RichFaces 5.0.0.Alpha1. RichFaces is described by JBoss as " an advanced UI component framework for easily integrating Ajax capabilities into business applications using JSF. " RichFaces had its origins in the Ajax4JSF project and as such, some of the components used within the project used the ajax4jsf namespace ( a4j: ), whereas the rest used the RichFaces namespace ( rich: ).  RichFaces 5 has rationalised its components so that they now all fall under the new RichFaces namespace ( r: ).  For example, in RichFaces 4, a context menu was instantiated in a JSF page as rich:contextMenu .  In RichFaces 5, this has now been simplified to r:contextMenu . Other major changes to RichFaces 5 are not immediate to developers, but are important nonetheless.  They include advanced testing of components using Arquillian, using asciidoc for documentation and a cleaner build environment. Brian Leathem, the RichFaces project lead, has provided detail...

If you missed the Java EE 7 Keynote and Breakout Sessions for the new JSR's included with EE 7, then you can now watch them On Demand . The Keynote is introduced by your friendly host Arun Gupta (Java EE and GlassFish Evangelist) and features talks by Hasan Rizvi (Executive VP Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java), Cameron Purdy (VP Development @ Oracle) and Linda DeMichiel (Spec Lead for Java EE 7 Platform). The Keynote runs just over an hour and includes examples and demonstrations of the new features in the EE 7 platform. In addition to the Keynote, several Breakout sessions are available describing the new featres and JSRs available: Java API for JSON Procession 1.0 Java API for WebSocket 1.0 Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.0 JavaServer Faces 2.2 Servlet 3.1 Expression Language 3.0 Enterprise Java Beans 3.2 Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1 Java Transaction API 1.2 Interceptors 1.2 Bean Validation 1.1 Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 Concurre...

Following on from today's earlier release of Java EE 7 and GlassFish 4 , Oracle has released NetBeans 7.3.1. NetBeans 7.3.1 supports Java EE 7 and comes bundled with GlassFish Server 4 Open Source Edition as well as Tomcat 7. In addition to supporting Java EE 7 and GlassFish 4, support for WebLogic 12.1.2 and JBoss AS 7.x have been added to this release. To use all the new features of Java EE 7, the NetBeans team recommend downloading and installing the full NetBeans 7.3.1 distribution as this is supplied with GlassFish 4.  Alternatively, the latest parches can be applied to a NetBeans 7.3 installation using the product's Update facility. A full list of bugs fixed in NetBeans 7.3.1 can be found here .

GlassFish 4 has been released today and is available for download from java.net GlassFish 4 is the first Java EE 7 compliant application server and supports the 14 new JSRs and 9 Maintenance Releases in EE 7. The new server is available with a " Get Started Quickly " guide which details how to get, install and start using the GlassFish server. Much more documentation including, upgrade guides,  development guides and tuning guides can be downloaded from the project's Documentation hub. Since this is the first application server to support Java EE 7, there will surely be many Java developers eager to download it and to start learning the new APIs. What are your thoughts? Are you eager to learn Java EE 7, or are you waiting for other application servers to catch up? Leave your thoughts below.

In a recent blog post , Adam Bien, has shown how the upcoming Java EE 7 api fixes issues that were present when testing applications against Java EE 6. In Java EE 6, applications could be compiled against the Java EE 6 api using the javaee-web-api Maven artifact. As the classes in the maven artifact however were just stub classes they only allowed compilation and would not allow a set of tests to run against the api's outside of the application server.  This would cause ClassFormatErors such as Caused by: java.lang.ClassFormatError: Absent Code attribute in method that is not native or abstract in class The fix for this issue was to compile and run tests against a 3rd party EE 6 api rather than the standard such as described on this tip . Adam has shown that this is no longer the case in EE 7, and using the official javaee-api Maven artifact will enable testing to be performed against the EE 7 api as expected. Thanks Adam for the tip !

The Apache MyFaces team have announced the release of MyFaces Core 2.1.12 and 2.0.18, being the Apache implementations of the JSF 2.1 and 2.0 specifications respectively (JSR-314). These releases are available directly from the project's download site, or can be updated in Maven projects by updating the version for the "org.apache.myfaces.core" group. Full release notes for version 2.1.12 can be found here , whereas the release note for 2.0.18 are available here . For further information about MyFaces, check out the project's web site where you can find a lot of information including quickstart guides, links to component libraries and more. Are you a MyFaces user or do use Mojarra ?  Add a comment below and let us know your thoughts.