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Building Web Applications with Maven 2
Ant is the default for many web application developers, but Will Iverson makes the case that using Maven 2 can save you a lot of time and hassle through its approach of sensible defaults. In this article, he introduces core Maven 2 concepts and then shows you how easy it is to develop a web app with Maven 2. Mar. 1, 2007

Behind The Scenes of Project Looking Glass
Project Looking Glass, highlighted in Scott McNealy's JavaOne keynote, is a 3D desktop environment that uses Java and hardware graphics acceleration to deliver a new kind of user experience. And now, it's open source. Will Iverson interviewed lead developer Hideya Kawahara to learn more about the project. Jul. 6, 2004

Introduction to SiteMesh
Do you have items like footers or navigation bars that you'd like to repeat on every page of your site? Do you want to add them easily? Then maybe, says Will Iverson, the "decorator"-based SiteMesh is for you.  Mar. 11, 2004

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Announcing BeanView 1.0.1: BeanView 1.0.1 has been posted. The main feature change is support for render IDs in the Echo 2 implementation, thereby adding support for Selenium. If you are interested in quickly developing applications either with Ajax (via Echo 2) or via Swing, you should check out BeanView.
Posted by wiverson on August 11, 2006 at 20:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Announcing BeanView 1.0: I've released an open source framework I've been working on for some time now as BeanView 1.0. BeanView allows you to create user interface forms automatically from your POJO + JDK 1.5 Annotations objects. It supports generating forms for both Swing and Echo 2 user interfaces. No code generation is required - the form is generated entirely via reflection.
Posted by wiverson on June 07, 2006 at 09:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Comments on Ajax and Web Frameworks: A summary of some of the feedback on my last post on web frameworks and Ajax, including a pointer to the facelets project on java.net, an interesting alternative view of JSF.
Posted by wiverson on July 20, 2005 at 14:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

Rethinking web development, or "Will I be spending the rest of my life writing JavaScript"?: If "real developers" write code for the server, but Ajax means we are writing tightly coupled presentation tiers... who exactly is supposed to be writing and maintaining all of that DHTML and JavaScript? How do we get out of this mess? Oh, and by the way, are you looking for a job?
Posted by wiverson on July 11, 2005 at 17:55 PST | Permalink | Discuss (18)  

Catching Up: A bit about tools and thoughts on Ajax and web frameworks from the JavaOne show floor.
Posted by wiverson on June 29, 2005 at 14:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Day 0: NetBeans Day: Shots fired in the open source IDE wars - integrated collaboration comes to NetBeans, and Matisse is released into the wild. Plus, an early access of Creator 2. It's a good day for Java tools junkies.
Posted by wiverson on June 26, 2005 at 23:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Planning for A Decade: After ten years, what is new and interesting at this year's JavaOne?
Posted by wiverson on June 25, 2005 at 14:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Putting things back together: JSF, EJB 3, Looking Glass, and WA: Key highlights from JavaOne, including JSF, EJB 3.0, JDK 1.5, and client side Java. Also, links to a white paper on web services and a Q&A I did with the lead developer of Project Looking Glass. All of that and a move - it's been a busy month...
Posted by wiverson on July 07, 2004 at 13:51 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JavaOne Tuesday: More JSF, POJO Persistence, and Web Services: More fun today with JSF, including some discussion of integration with the new POJO persistence systems, and some musings on web services.
Posted by wiverson on June 29, 2004 at 21:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JavaOne Monday: JSF, 3D, and Tools: A look at some of the highlights of the Monday show, including thoughts on JSF/Creator, 3D gaming and entertainment, and development tools.
Posted by wiverson on June 28, 2004 at 20:09 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Still Lots To Be Done...: A list of ten major, difficult areas of innovation the technology world could use to help break out of the doldrums. Of interest to pundits, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in creating the next big thing...
Posted by wiverson on March 12, 2004 at 13:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

What ever happened to SVG?: What ever happened to scalable vector graphics (aka SVG)? Where are the tools and the commercial support? (Bonus: a link to a reasonable free, open source Java UML tool).
Posted by wiverson on February 04, 2004 at 12:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (12)  

Great Looking Swing: Proof that you can make great looking, snappy Swing apps, with free libraries to help your own desktop apps.
Posted by wiverson on January 29, 2004 at 12:25 PST | Permalink | Discuss (20)  

State of Web Services 2004?: So, it's 2004 - where are your web services? Are you using them? Hype or reality? Inquiring minds need to know...
Posted by wiverson on January 21, 2004 at 13:52 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Java and TiVo - Ready To Go: An interesting new project, the JavaHMO is an implementation of the TiVo Home Media Option desktop software, only written in Java, with new features, and open source. Does it really work?
Posted by wiverson on October 27, 2003 at 14:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

The Future of Native Interfaces: Is JNI the last answer for native bridges? Is there a better way? Does anyone care?
Posted by wiverson on October 09, 2003 at 11:12 PST | Permalink | Discuss (15)  

Bandwidth, Installers and Schema Updates: I recently wrote an article for O'Reilly ONJava.com, "Create Desktop Applications with Java-Based Web Technologies", and I was just pondering some of the feedback I got and get up on a (very tiny, obvious) soapbox. Also, some links to a tool for automatic schema updates.
Posted by wiverson on September 22, 2003 at 19:06 PST | Permalink | Discuss (12)  

A Saga of Palm Java Development: Leaping into the realm of handheld development still has sharp edges, but it's possible to find good results...
Posted by wiverson on August 04, 2003 at 21:19 PST | Permalink | Discuss (8)  

Annoying Data Types & Open Sourcing A Schema Update Library:
Posted by wiverson on July 14, 2003 at 13:29 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

A Busy World Filled With Links: After JavaOne and WWDC, it's good to take stock of the ramblings and browsings. In this entry, pointers to Hibernate & Middlegen, a look at the "Red Hat" for Java open source, a nice rendition of Tomcat, the growing popularity of Rendezvous/ZeroConf (with a link to a Java library), OpenOffice, and Java on Palm. Whew...
Posted by wiverson on June 30, 2003 at 10:05 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Wandering the Floor: Thoughts on the exhibitor floor, some more notes on things to look at, and at least one cool product from a small developer you should take a look at.
Posted by wiverson on June 12, 2003 at 17:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

What's New, What's Interesting: A look at some of the announcements (Hibernate, Rave), a look at some of the technologies people have been talking about (AspectJ), and a question regarding embeddable Java technologies (JSP servers and Java databases).
Posted by wiverson on June 10, 2003 at 17:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

Waiting for JavaOne: Getting ready for JavaOne...
Posted by wiverson on June 08, 2003 at 17:00 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)