Xebia Web Framework Contest
I found an interesting blog post today about a contest (English translation) a French company (Xebia) had with some Java web frameworks.4 teams have developed the same web application, each with a...
View ArticleComparing Web Frameworks: Time for a Change?
I first came up with the idea to do a "Comparing Web Frameworks" talk in 2004. I submitted a talk to ApacheCon and it got accepted. From there, I outlined, created sample apps and practiced this talk...
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Comparing JVM Web Frameworks Presentation
Early this morning, I assembled a Comparing JVM Web Frameworks presentation in preparation for my talk tomorrow at ApacheCon. As mentioned on Monday, this presentation compares Flex, Grails, GWT, Seam,...
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Action Packed Week in California
Morning light on the Golden Gate Bridge Originally uploaded by TravelnFotog This week is shaping up to be quite the action-packed week in California. First of all, the MacWorld 2008 Keynote is...
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GWT Presentation with Bob Vawter
Tonight I'm in Mountain View attending the inaugural meeting for the new Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (SV-GTUG). The good news about this meeting is Bob plans to discuss some of the new...
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Proposal accepted for OSCON 2008
From an e-mail I received earlier this afternoon: We are pleased to accept the following proposal for OSCON 2008. * Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grails and Rails It has been scheduled for...
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What's a good RIA to develop in 20 hours?
In less than two months, I'm making my annual trek to Portland, Oregon to speak at OSCON. To prepare for my talk, I'd like to develop the same application with two different combinations: Flex + Rails...
View ArticleRE: What's a good RIA to develop in 20 hours?
Thanks to everyone who commented on my previous post and offered recommendations for RIAs to develop in 20 hours or less. In order to narrow down my choices, I've created a survey on SurveyMonkey.com....
View ArticleGWT and REST
I've posted two message to the GWT Google Group in the last couple of days. However, new member messages are moderated and neither has shown up yet. I'm reposting my questions here in hopes of getting...
View Article[OSCON 2008] Web Frameworks of the Future: Flex, GWT, Grails and Rails
Below is the presentation I'm delivering at OSCON today. Unfortunately, I had to remove slides on GWT and Flex to fit w/in the 45 minute time limit. I hope to expand this presentation in the future, as...
View ArticlePresenting Web Frameworks of the Future Tomorrow in Denver
Tomorrow (Thursday) night, I'll be doing an encore presentation of my Web Frameworks of the Future at DeRailed. If you're in Denver and would like to hear me ramble while drinking a beer, join us at...
View ArticleXebia RIA Framework Contest
Last year, I blogged about the Xebia Web Framework Contest where Struts 2, GWT, Wicket and MyFaces (JSF) were all used to develop the same applications. It seems they've done it again this year,...
View ArticleBuilding Rich Applications with Appcelerator
This afternoon, I delivered my Building Rich Applications with Appcelerator talk for the 3rd time at Colorado Software Summit. When I first proposed this topic, I hadn't used Appcelerator and saw this...
View ArticleRESTful Web Applications with Subbu Allamaraju
Subbu works at Yahoo! developing standards, patterns and practices for HTTP web languages. In the past, he was a web service and Java developer. He was also a standards contributor at BEA and an author...
View ArticleChoosing an Ajax Framework
This past week, my colleagues and I have been researching Ajax Frameworks. We're working on a project that's following SOFEA-style architecture principles and we want the best framework for our needs....
View ArticleTesting GWT Applications
Last week, I did some research on GWT, how to test it and code coverage options for tests that extend GWTTestCase. The reason I did this is because I've found that most of the GWT tests I write have to...
View ArticleEnhancing your GWT Application with the UrlRewriteFilter
Last week, I spent some time trying to change the location of my cache/nocache HTML files in my GWT project. I started the project with the gwt-maven-plugin's archetype. The message I posted to the...
View ArticleGWTTestSuite makes builds faster, but requires JUnit 4.1
Earlier this week, I spent some time implementing GWTTestSuite to speed up my project's build process. In Hudson, the project was taking around 15 minutes to build, locally it was only taking 5 minutes...
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GWT and AppFuse
Someone recently sent me the following e-mail asking about GWT integration in AppFuse. I see from your blog that you're spending some time with GWT at the moment. What's your plan, are you going to...
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GXT's MVC Framework
For the past couple of months, I've been developing a GWT application using a mix of plain ol' GWT and GXT widgets. When I first started developing it, I didn't know how to best organize my code and...
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