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Lurking at Hypersonic data

Posted 1 day ago by nor...@blogger.com (Thomas Heute)

There are times when you want to look at your database data during development.
It is also very common to keep using Hypersonic as a database during that same phase.

But do you know how to look at your JBoss Portal data ? Here is an ... [More] entry-level explanation on how to do it. I got the idea of this blog entry by reading a question on a forum and hope it could help.

JBoss AS includes the "HSQL Database Manager" a GUI to execute SQL request on a HSQL server. To access it, you will need to go through the JMX console and locate the startDatabaseManager() operation on the jboss:database=localDB,service=Hypersonic MBean.

Clicking on "Invoke" should open up a new application that looks like this:

You see the content of the default datasource of JBoss AS. Now to see the default datasource of JBoss Portal click on File>Connect... You will see the following screen (after enlarging the window horizontally):In the URL just change the final part: /data/hypersonic/localDB to /data/portal/hypersonic/database then click Ok.

Voila, you can now browse the default JBoss Portal database and do SQL queries on it:
Note: If you wish to restart from fresh with default data, you simply need to delete the files from: server/default/data/portal and restart JBoss AS. [Less]

Julien Viet's Blog

Posted 4 days ago by nor...@blogger.com (Julien Viet)

I just want to signal people reading the JBoss Portal developer's blog that I just opened my official blog. I will share with you topics like portal, portlet, java, lot of cool stuff and my rants.

Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 1 of 3)

Posted 16 days ago by nor...@blogger.com (Wesley Hales)

InfoQ just published the first in a series of 3 articles for the JBoss Portlet Bridge.

This one is about basic JSF development with an easy to follow tutorial and real world development tips. The next one will be about RichFaces and the ... [More] final (about Seam) will be published right after the release of Beta 4 in early September.

Enjoy!
http://www.infoq.com/articles/jsf-ajax-seam-portlets-pt-1 [Less]

JBoss Portal and EPP releases

Posted 22 days ago by nor...@blogger.com (Thomas Heute)

We are very happy to announce the releases of JBoss Portal 2.6.6 and JBoss Portal 2.7.0.Beta1 !

JBoss Portal 2.6.6 is a maintenance release, it also includes a lot of internationalization work done by Luca Stancapiano (with Italian ... [More] translation) and partial Russian translation offered by Anton Borisow, thanks ! It's available here for community and will be accessible next week on the Customer Support Portal for our customers.

Now, probably even more exciting is the release of JBoss Portal 2.7.0 Beta 1. It now includes what we call "explicit coordination", we'll have to blog about that feature but there is already a Wiki and samples available out of the box. Also the new documentation is now available.

Now a bit more details about what will happen next:

The following scenario is what should happen:
- JBoss Portal 2.7.0 Candidate for Release 1 at the end of August
- JBoss Portal 2.7.0 General Availability in September

Of course all those dates are not written in stone and depend a lot on issues that we may discover and reported by users. Please try those versions as soon as they are out so we all don't have to wait ten more weeks for bug fixes (see below).

JBoss Portal 2.6.x and JBoss Portal 2.7.x community releases
All minors versions happen on a time-boxed release schedule. Every 10 to 12 weeks roughly, a new minor release comes out containing bug fixes and eventually new features. There is no change here, this is what has been already rolling out for the few past releases.

Community vs Enterprise Portal Platform
By December, we will release an Enterprise Portal Platform based on JBoss Portal 2.7.x and the Enterprise Application Platform 4.3.
What does it mean ? It means that our customers will have access to a JBoss Portal EAP release with a fixed set of production ready features to guarantee the best stability. This set will be supported for up to five years with certified cumulative patches available. In the meantime, customers are still recommended to use the supported JBoss Portal 2.6 releases from the Customer Support Portal along with a version of the Enterprise Application Platform as the community versions downloaded from jboss.org are not supported. More details are available here. Feel free to contact me (thomas.heute@jboss.com) if you have any question about the supported products.

JBoss Portal 2.6 will be supported till September 2009, see here for details. JBoss Portal 2.4 full supports ends next month (August 2008) with an additional year for security errata and mission critical bug fixes only.

I will come back on the Enterprise Portal Platform details as we get closer to the release date.

I hope I answered the questions about our releases time-frames.

Now on a personal note, I'm getting two weeks off and will be glad to see my Normandy again :) [Less]

Most impressive Javascript I've ever seen

Posted about 1 month ago by nor...@blogger.com (Julien Viet)

When I was a kid, I spent lot of time coding on my Amiga 500 visual effects called demos. I had much fun with demos and it was a great way to learn coding. I still spend a bit of my time to look at the actual productions or read technical articles ... [More] on demo effects.
It's very boring to use a technology to do what it is designed for. Abusing the browsers DOM Javascript is also something possible but very hard to achieve. Why ? because browsers are designed to display styled boxes and text and nothing else. For instance, drawing a line or a bitmap is very hard to achieve without dirty tricks that are very expensive to perform, think of implementing the Bresenham line algorithm to draw a line using the DOM as a rendering technology.
I found in the past a few abuse of DOM JS that went in that direction such as "Super Mario" remakes, but I was not much impressed... until today!
The demo is called Neja and it's coded by Ribon and Bomb! Even my Macbookpro finds it impressive because it really excites the laptop's fan :-) . It worked well only in Firefox and in did not work fully in Safari. You can check it online here, enjoy! [Less]

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