If you add the recent MyEclipse 5.5 support for GlassFish V2, you must admit that GlassFish Java EE 5 server  has a very nice Tools coverage so far for developers... Idea anybody?

Bye,
Ludo

Phobos Editor in NetBeans 6.0

Posted by ludo on June 06, 2007 at 09:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Bonjour, Comment Java?

Why is it only under pressure that 'things' can get done? Today, I was working more or less in parallels on a  jMaki NetBeans update, a new Phobos update,  an improved NetBeans 6.0 GlassFish V3 plugin, a new GlassFish V3 Eclipse 3.3 plugin, an update of the Eclipse jMaki plugin to also support Java EE 5 web apps, downloading the Eclipse WTP 2.0 RC2, building NetBeans 6.0 daily from source (big big changes coming, mosly good stuff in preparation for Milestone 10), and then my manager asked me an innocent question regarding Phobos:

• "Since Phobos is all about JavaScript on the Server Side and on the Cient side, how can you make the difference when a user is editing an EJS (Embedded JavaScript) page that contains both server and client JavaScript?"

Ouch...He had a good point...NetBeans 6.0 has an EJS editor on its update center, pretty good so far, but you could not find easily if a JavaScript statement was for the server side or the client side... I just updated this EJS editor so that the background color would be different (Client or Server), as seen in the following image:

 

You'll notice also that all the Phobos libraries (library.*) are available via code completion, thanks to Roberto that can produce a code completion database in JSON format via a Phobos tool... The documentation is also online at: https://phobos.dev.java.net/nonav/apidoc/javascript/index.html
and in the NetBeans editor.
All this work has to be done before I go on vacation, back to France in Ajaccio (Corsica) and Bourg de Batz (Britany), 2 of the nicest places on earth.

A Bientot,
Ludo

GlassFish V3 and Eclipse Europa

Posted by ludo on May 31, 2007 at 07:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Bonjour, comment Java?

Status update: GlassFish V3 has now a plugin for Eclipse Europa 3.3... Startup is under a second, and deployment of a Java EE 5 Application is under half a second...





I'll post the plugin jar file soon, on https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/
Ludo

GlassFish and MyEclipse and Eclipse support...

Posted by ludo on May 30, 2007 at 06:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)


Bonjour, Comment Java?

Every time I start the Eclipse IDE, I'm always pleased with the welcome screen:



Did you notice that the only company name mentioned is "Sun Microsystems"? Sweet!. Also, if you've have been using the previous Eclipse versions (3.0), you would have noticed that the Sun light is becoming much bigger:)


So I finally got my hands on a release candidate set of zip files to install Eclipse 3.3 Europa at http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R2.0/S-2.0RC0-200705171455/ and after a few try/failures I finally got everything running on my Mac system. I am in the process of updating the GlassFish plugin for Eclipse 3.0 so that finally Eclipse users can create Java EE 5 applications and deploy them to GlassFish V1 and GlassFish V2. The updated plugins should be available in a few days.

MyEclipse released a few days ago a new version (5.5) that also brings Java EE 5 support to the developers. It comes with MyEclipse plugins for GlassFish V1 and GlassFish V2.

For the time and energy I spent to install the Release candidate for Europa, I must admit that paying a few dollars for MyEclipse is definitely the right investment to do (although I am still missing a complete installer for Mac OSX, and a GlassFish/MyEclipse co-Bundle that would be installable in one shot).





I enjoyed the JSP editor (and renderer), as well as an extensive JavaScript support that should play well with our Ajax jMaki components (that are also available for Eclipse).
There are still a few issues in the Java EE 5 support of MyEclipse (for example, one cannot create JPA entity beans in a Web Application, or no pure Java EE 5 Web Services support -Axis is the only supported stack-, or that the fact you need to touch files like web.xml or ejb-jar.xml or application.xml to trigger a redeployment for exploded directories -when these files are now optional in the latest Java EE 5 specification which is all about ease of development and replacement of those xml files into Java annotations)-, but all I can say is that for people who want an Eclipse based IDE to do Java EE 5 development (and target the GlassFish application server), MyEclipse is certainly a very good option and worth the investment. Very soon, MyEclipse will switch to Eclipse Europa platform and the latest good stuff from WTP 2.0.

Registering GlassFish in MyEclipse is very easy, and deployment of Java EE 5 applications to it is simple:


Having said that, for people who have the freedom to look at a solution which is not Eclipse based, NetBeans 5.5.1 and the coming NetBeans 6.0 are also offering advanced (and complete) Java EE 5 support, including JSF, JPA, Web Services and more. NetBeans also updates automatically the GlassFish specific descriptors when needed and transparently.

In conclusion, it is good to see that there is a wide range of tools targeting Java EE 5, and it's best implementation so far: GlassFish:-)

Ludo

Nasa World Wind and Phobos...

Posted by ludo on May 10, 2007 at 09:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Bonjour, comment Java(One)?


Nasa World Wind Java and Phobos?
Nasa World Wind is breath taking...I was in the JavaOne's speaker room with Ken Russell, and the question I asked him is: "Can I replace the Earth with Phobos?, one of the  Mars's two moons (aka as project Phobos for server side JavaScript...). The aswer is YES...Cool, I have to start working on it asap...