I’ve spent most of my career developing in Java for the web. I’ve used the full range of frameworks: Servlets, JSPs, Struts, JSF, Wicket, and dozens more. Early in my career I did a lot of Swing development. Now I grant there are a lot of inherent problems there as well, but nowhere near the…
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JavaFX Wrapper: jSeamless 2.0
I made a post recently (I Hate JavaFX; I Love JavaFX) in which I did a preliminary investigation on the idea of using the JavaFX API directly in Java rather than relying on JavaFX Script to do the job. I used the Clock example I saw on a tutorial on Sun’s site as a practical…
Why Scala is AWESOME
Many people refer to me as a Java evangelist, Java super-freak, and many other terms that tend to suggest that any language other than Java is outside of the realm of consideration. Though true that I do my fair share of bashing of languages like Ruby or Groovy, it is because I really have longed…
The Fall of Innovation
It saddens me these days to see so few programmers that question the way things are done and simply accept as the best way to do things what is considered to be the standard. I fear innovation is being lost in this generation of developers since instead of questioning and trying to make new and…
New Session Paradigm
To be honest, this is not something I’ve considered to be a problem until I started working on the implementation in jSeamless of it. Servlet Sessions are just fine for the majority of web applications but I began to realize that they are inherently flawed conceptually. The first problem is that multiple tabs in a…
Delayed Ajax
There has long been a problem with getting information from the server to the client real-time in web applications. There are several hacks out there for making this happen, but most of them revolve around some idea of polling or server push. These have significant flaws and a while back I sat down to come…
Conforming
I’ve long procrastinated setting up a blog, but since I’m being bombarded by ideas in my head and my forum posts are becoming more and more off-topic I’ve decided to set up a blog for my random ideas and rants to at least get them out of my head.