Category: Java
Error Compiling WSC AppEngine Partner Jar for Salesforce.com Sandbox
March 11th, 2010, No Comments
I’m working on a demo for Google App Engine that connects to one of our Salesforce.com Sandboxes (hope to be done tomorrow or Monday). The Force.com Web Service Connector (WSC) project has a partner-library.jar that you can download and add to your project to get up and running quickly. However, if you want to connect [...]
Virtual File System for Google App Engine
October 23rd, 2009, 1 Comment
App Engine has a number of security restrictions that it imposes on applications. One that is often cited as a major source of frustration is the inability to read/write to a local file system. It looks like the developer community may have developed a workaround.
Kyle Roche sent me a link to a GaeVFS, a distributed, [...]
SpringSource and VMware – A Match Made in the Cloud?
August 27th, 2009, No Comments
VMware recently announced the acquisition of SpringSource, an open-source Java tools maker, for $400M. Not bad for SpringSoruce which only has $25M in revenues. I’ve been a big fan of SpringSource and user of their tools for quite a while. Hopefully this turns out to be a good deal for SpringSource and developers using their [...]
Force.com Sites vs. Google App Engine – Why We Chose Sites
July 1st, 2009, 2 Comments
Late May we released our Force.com Sites application for one of our internal companies, Taylor and Francis. The Sites app is part of a larger Salesforce.com project that involves identfifying new book sales opportunities, sending professors inspection copies of requested books and obtaining feedback on what professors intended to do with the books. Professors typically [...]
Google App Engine for Java and Force.com Java Toolkit Demo
June 24th, 2009, No Comments
When the Force.com for Google App Engine Java Toolkit was in development I promised Ron Hess and Ryan Marples some feedback on my development efforts and to provide some demo applications for the project. Unfortunately the toolkit was released roughly the same time that our Sites pilot application went live and I left for my [...]
A Big, Scalable Bucked of RIA Goodness
June 23rd, 2009, No Comments
I was thinking about writing this tutorial but it looks like someone has already beat me to it. This is a really good example of using Flex, BlazeDS and Eclipse with Google App Engine for Java for a highly scalable interface.
He even references the GAE/J hack for Adobe BlazeDS to run.
Nice work!
JSTL Issue with GAE/J and Spring
June 18th, 2009, 2 Comments
I was porting an existing Spring application to GAE/J and was having an issue with JSTL not rendering correctly. It was just dumping the code to the browser.
I finally tracked down the issue to the web.xml that is generated by GAE/J. This issue seems to be that with GAE/J you need to be using the [...]
Force.com Integration Announced for GAE/J
May 27th, 2009, No Comments
The cat is finally out of the bag regarding the new Force.com integration with Google App Engine for Java. I’ve been working with Ron Hess and Ryan Marples for roughly a month or so on the project and it’s been very hard to keep the secret.
Ron and Ryan did all of the heavy lifting and [...]
15 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex, BlazeDS and Salesforce.com
May 6th, 2009, No Comments
InfoQ has a really good article entitled, 13 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex and BlazeDS. I’ve been a big fan of Flex front ends for Java for a long time and have a couple of application running in production with Adobe BlazeDS. I have a tutorial to help you get up and running [...]
Get Your Java Code Jumpin' with Roo
May 4th, 2009, No Comments
If you develop Java applications with Spring, you’ll be excited to learn that SpringSouce announced at last week’s SpringOne Eupope conference a new round-trip, open source code generation tool for it’s framework called “Roo”. Ben Alex has an enlightening blog post about Roo and will be discussing the tool in the next coming posts.
You may [...]
