Times Square, New York

Holiday’s over, what’s next ?

Jul 28th

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At last, back in Belgium behind my desk and finding some time to write something.

Times Square, New York

Times Square, New York


New York is amazing, it opens up your view over the world. Words cannot describe the feeling when sitting on the red stairs in Times Square, feeling the everlasting energy and vibes of Times Square.

After 7 days of exploring the citylife, the two weeks at the Belgian Coast were very welcome.

In a few days I will be recommencing my daily job as a Java Software Engineer and blogging things as they happen.

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RichFaces 4 Alpha Released

Jun 22nd

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Today, the RichFaces 4 Alpha 2 was released. For an overview of what’s new in JSF2 and the possibilities, check out this blog by Andy Schwartz for a complete review with lots of links and documentation.

Quote from the Richfaces Project Page
RichFaces is a component library for JSF and an advanced framework for easily integrating AJAX capabilities into business applications.

  • 100+ AJAX enabled components in two libraries
    • a4j: page centric AJAX controls
    • rich: self contained, ready to use components
  • Whole set of JSF benefits while working with AJAX
  • Skinnability mechanism
  • Component Development Kit (CDK)
  • Dynamic resources handling
  • Testing facilities for components, actions, listeners, and pages
  • Broad cross-browser support
  • Large and active community
JSF 2 and RichFaces 4

We are working hard on RichFaces 4.0 which will have full JSF 2 integration. That is not all though, here is a summary of updates and features:

  • Redesigned modular repository and build system.
  • Simplified Component Development Kit with annotations, faces-config extensions, advanced templates support and more..
  • Ajax framework improvements extending the JSF 2 specification.
  • Component review for consistency, usability, and redesign following semantic HTML principles where possible.
  • Both server-side and client-side performance optimization.
  • Strict code clean-up and review.

I followed the tutorial on how to get a project up and running from this JBoss Community article and started work on a clean skeleton. On this blank project I will be experimenting with JSF2 and richfaces components in the near future.

With this blank project in mind, I created following architecture:

  • Maven2 Project
  • Reference JSF2 API and IMPL
  • RichFaces 4.0.0.Alpha2 component library

You can immediatly start experimenting by importing this Maven2 project in your favourite IDE (mvn eclipse:eclipse goal is configured). Have fun!

Download Maven2 Skeleton

Download WAR

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GoF Java Design Patterns in the Java SE and Java EE API

Jun 21st

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Today I had the opportunity to write a reusable component for the project I am currently working on. Because I had the freedom to write it from scratch, I looked into some of the design patterns that are commonly used in the process of Software Engineering.

While I refreshed some of the common design patterns, I found this nice thread on Stack Overflow – Examples of gof design patterns. It offers an overview of design patterns that are being used in the Sun Java SE and JavaEE API. Since the sun JDK is open-source and thus free for all, it’s easy for you to take a look into its source code and learn from the better implementations of these patterns.

Some of the patterns that are linked into the JDK:

Just take a look for yourself! Keep your favourite IDE open with sources attached!

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System.out.print(“Hello world!”);

Jun 20th

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I will try to use this platform to express my personal view and share some knowledge of the technologies I use day in day out.
The blog of a Java enthousiast has been born.