Who says gaming is all fun? Well, Eximion, one of our portfolio companies does. Those who thought Holland only produced tulips and wooden shoes should think again! Out of their converted student home, Eximion from Eindhoven in the Netherlands, have worked for two years on their ‘new style’ web game platform. Last week the covers were pulled off this labour of love… the Kalydo platform. (more…)

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On 8 June, we hosted our first JBoss User Group meeting for this part of the world. The event was extremely sociable, and there were two great presentations, so we all met lots of people, had some fun and learned about some JBoss-related technology. Here are some photos from the event. (more…)

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JBoss 4.2.0.GA comes with JavaServer Faces (JSF) 1.2 - a newer JSF version than JBoss 4.0.5.GA. They chose the SUN implementation. (I think that MyFaces will really soon be obsolete.) This upgrade requires some changes in applications using JSF (for example the applications that are Seam based). Here is what I have done to make it work, including some steps from Michael Yuan’s blog post.

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This article describes how to implement a custom converter in JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Facelets that formats dates using relative dates for yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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