Category: Java
Google App Engine for Java Demo Application
April 30th, 2009, 11 Comments
Google App Engine for Java was released a couple of weeks ago and I finally found some time to finish up my first demo application. My original idea was to do a Java version of the Salesforce.com demo that I did in Python on Google App Engine, but I quickly found out that Google App [...]
Web Beans Preview Now Available
April 24th, 2009, No Comments
Jboss just announced the first preview release of Web beans, their dependency injection and contextual lifecycle management framework. Web beans is an implementation of JSR-299 which defines a set of services for the Java EE environment that makes applications much easier to develop. JSR-299 layers an enhanced lifecycle and interaction model over existing Java component [...]
Google App Engine Now Supports Java
April 10th, 2009, 1 Comment
It only took a year (not bad) but now in addition to Python, Google App Engine now supports Java. This will be a huge boost to App Engine as it opens the service to a wider range of developer. I’ve played around with a few apps but I lacked the Python language knowledge to really [...]
Tutorial: Salesforce.com with Flex and BlazeDS
March 26th, 2009, 6 Comments
It’s fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesforce.com. We use Apex and Visualforce for a large majority of our custom UIs but there are some instances that just work better with Flex (drag and drop, trees, tabbed interfaces, etc.). But what if you have a shiny, new Flex application running on [...]
Grails 1.1 Released
March 10th, 2009, No Comments
I just saw the release notes on Grails and man am I excited! I recently started with Groovy and am just now getting my head wrapped around Grails. A perfect time for a new release. In case you are not familiar with Grails: “Grails is a dynamic web application framework built on Java and Groovy, [...]
Hoagie – The Developer's Other White Meat
February 10th, 2009, No Comments
Joe Rinehart is proposing a new development stack for rapid, RIA development that includes some of my favorite and most used technologies: Business layer written in Groovy (Java) JPA and Hibernate for database persistence Spring for the service layer Coldspring / Model-Glue / ColdFusion for the presentation layer JMS and Swiz for a nice RIA [...]
Upsize to Force.com
January 10th, 2009, No Comments
I remember back in the day there use to be a utility that would allow you to upsize your Access database to SQL Server. It was such a great tool that saved hours and hours of time. Reid Carlberg has just released a new application on Code Share that allows you to migrate your local [...]
BlazeDS – ReferenceError: Error #1056
December 5th, 2008, 1 Comment
I have been doing Flash Remoting with Flex and ColdFusion for a number of years but wanted to do something with a pure Java solution. I decided to setup BlazeDS (Adobe’s open source server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology) on my EC2 instance for fun. I found a great tutorial (“Getting started with BlazeDS”) [...]
Open BlueDragon Up and Running in Under 30 Minutes!
November 20th, 2008, No Comments
I had a few minutes to spare this morning so I thought I would install Open BlueDragon on one of our dev servers. In case you don’t know, Open BlueDragon is an open source version of BlueDragon, an alternative J2EE CFML engine to Adobe ColdFusion. We have the commercial version of BlueDragon installed on a couple of boxes [...]
Attaching a Document to a Record in Salesforce.com (Java)
October 10th, 2008, 4 Comments
The follow code allows you to upload a physical file to Salesforce.com and attach it to a record. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 /** * See [...]
