Java - Jeff Douglas

Document Apex Code with ApexDoc

My fellow Appirian and resident super-smart guy, Aslam Bari has created a super slick tool to document Apex code. ApexDoc is essentially JavaDocs for Apex. You add comments to your source code in the JavaDoc fashion (@author, @date, @param, etc) and ApexDoc reads these

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Salesforce REST API Demo from Cloudstock

This is the demo that I put together for the Cloudstock Hackathon and I tried to throw in as many partner services as possible. I finally ended up with five so it was dubbed the "Kitchen Sink" demo. I thought some people may find

Appirio

My VMforce and Facebook Demos Today at Dreamforce

If you are at Dreamforce today here are the sessions that I am speaking in. I'm really excited to be part of both of them as the topics (VMforce and the new Facebook toolkit) are really cool. Leveraging Public Social Networks - West 2005

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Cloud Computing for Java Developers Webinar (VMforce)

I attended the Cloud Computing for Java Developers webinar yesterday, which was essentially an intro to VMforce and the Force.com platform for (non-Force.com) Java developers. Quinton Wall and Jesper Joergensen did a good job with the overview of the platform but I

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Error Compiling Salesforce Metadata API with WSC

This might not be relevant right now but you may find it useful in the near future. I'm tinkering with an app that spits out documentation for an org. I really hate doing documentation and am quite lazy so I thought I'd write something

Cloud Computing

Get Ready for VMForce - Here's How!

VMForce is coming (sometime in the near future) so what can you do to get started now? If I was a betting man (with inside info), here is what I'd do to get ready. Start Building on Google App EngineMy guess is that VMForce

Android

Salesforce Chatter for Android

My blog has been a little quiet since I left for Google IO a few weeks ago and this is primarily the reason why. In addition to my day job I've been working on getting up-to-speed on Android development. Google sent me a Droid

Cloud Computing

WaveMaker's IDE for the Cloud

Yesterday at Appirio we had a private demo of the WaveMaker platform from the guys at WaveMaker. I'll try to recap most of the things that I heard as it pertains to Salesforce.com and vmforce but for more details you'll want to check

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Java Command Line App Using the Salesforce WSC

Force.com Web Service Connector (WSC) is a high performance web services stack that is much easier to implement than the "tried and true" Force.com Web Services API. Here's a quick command line app you can use as a starter application.

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Integrate Chatter & Twitter on Google App Engine using OAuth

Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog. At Appirio we've been excited about Salesforce Chatter for quite a while. We firmly believe that Chatter has the potential to bridge the gap between enterprise applications and the way people work. We were luckily enough to receive

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Error Compiling WSC AppEngine Partner Jar for Salesforce.com Sandbox

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

Cloud Computing

Virtual File System for Google App Engine

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

Cloud Computing

SpringSource and VMware - A Match Made in the Cloud?

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

Google App Engine

Force.com Sites vs. Google App Engine - Why We Chose Sites

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

Google App Engine

Google App Engine for Java and Force.com Java Toolkit Demo

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

Google App Engine

A Big, Scalable Bucked of RIA Goodness

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

Google App Engine

JSTL Issue with GAE/J and Spring

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/

Google App Engine

Force.com Integration Announced for GAE/J

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

Google App Engine

15 Reasons for Java Programmers to Learn Flex, BlazeDS and Salesforce.com

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.

Java

Get Your Java Code Jumpin' with Roo

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

Google App Engine

Google App Engine for Java Demo Application

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

Java

Web Beans Preview Now Available

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

Google App Engine

Google App Engine Now Supports Java

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

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Tutorial: Salesforce.com with Flex and BlazeDS

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,

Technology

Grails 1.1 Released

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: "