This week Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux, senior software developers at Lunatech Research, presented Seam In Action at JavaPolis in Antwerp.
JBoss Seam is a Java EE application framework whose many roles can make it hard to introduce and explain. It turns out that the European Union (EU) is a good metaphor for Seam, and not just for the humour-value.
Several Lunatech Research employees will be at JavaPolis in Antwerp this week, starting with Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux who did a Seam In Action presentation on the first day.
There is an accepted wisdom in software design that the way to gather good quality data is to reject 'bad data'. The main tactic is to suppose that no data is better than incomplete data, which is why we are told 'you must complete the required fields'. This sounds like a fine idea, until you observe people filling in a form and typing 'unknown' into half of the fields.
Here are a few photos from last week's JBoss User Group event.
This article explains how to do programmatic log in, in a Seam 1.2.1 application. If like us, you want to allow your users to change their credentials once they are logged in into your application, you might be forced to log them out and to ask them to re-login. There is a nicer way to do this.
Since the first event was so much fun, Lunatech Research hosted the second JBoss Benelux User Group meeting on 2 November 2007, with a presentation by Bruno Georges.
One of Lunatech Ventures' cool investments at the moment is Eximion - next generation games on the web. Now that Eximion is ready for the prime time, it was interesting to talk to art director Chris van der Linden about the work behind the graphics, and how he has a huge catalogue of sketches that he made while developing ideas and game characters.
Although I generally avoid Amsterdam, I will be making an exception tomorrow to go to The 7th Amsterdam Java Meetup with Sam. It should be a good chance to meet some more Java developers who work in the Netherlands, and although De Jaren is hardly my favourite cafe-bar, at least it is big enough for the expected large crowd.
After you have built the initial version of a web application, it can be hard to know what to add in version 2.0, tricky to know how add value and make it expensive software, and near-impossible to understand what features a web 2.0 application actually has. This article describes some common features that you might think are merely Nice To Have, and why you might really need them sooner rather than later.
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