MAY 2006
Welcome to the next edition of "Extra from Exadel". Our monthly online newsletter provides the open source community with news about our products, industry trends, and upcoming events.
EXADEL UPDATE:
NEW EXADEL WEBSITE: MORE SERVICES FOR YOU
We are proud to announce an improved Exadel website. The new site will allow you to now log in with a password so that you can easily access product downloads, additional technical content and better navigation in the shopping cart.
Log in today to check it out!
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES:
EXADEL STUDIO PRO 3.6 HAS BEEN RELEASED
First with full support for JavaServer Faces 1.2
Exadel Studio Pro needs no introduction. Thousands of Java developers around the world are using this advanced enterprise-level web application development environment. New robust features, added in the 3.6 release of Exadel Studio Pro, will give developers even more power and flexibility:
- Full support for the new JavaServer Faces 1.2
- Support for Glassfish (Java EE5) server deployment
- A detailed diagram view for Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping
Upgrade your Exadel Studio Pro now!
NEW JSF TRAINING... NOW SELF-PACED!
Based on increased demand from developers, we now offer self-paced online JSF Training.
This course offers the only 3-week, online, self-paced JSF course with individualized instruction from expert practitioners. You can study and exchange assignments with instructors and other students on your own schedule. Communicating with instructors and classmates via an on-line forum gives you access to the expertise you need!
EXADEL VISUAL COMPONENT PLATFORM ? UPDATED DEMO AVAILABLE
Exadel Visual Component Platform Demo has been updated.
View the demo from the product page or download your free 15-day trial.
TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVES:
NOTHING ABOUT AJAX
by Igor Shabalov, Exadel's Vice President of Product Development
"Everybody feels they need to talk about AJAX. This tiny piece of technology seems to be a part of every technical article. Primarily because of this, I have decided NOT to write about AJAX.Instead, I decided to build a small demo application that is both is interactive like an ?AJAX application? and does not require any knowledge of AJAX. For this trick, I will use a new open source JSF components library... I just like the fact that I do NOT need to do anything AJAX-specific. This application will be built using standard JSF techniques."
Read the article and view the example here.
OPEN SOURCE CORNER:
AJAX FOR JSF: EASIER THAN EVER
Exadel Submits AJAX JSF Project to Java.Net
2006 JAVAONE CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 16, 2006?Exadel, Inc. announced that it has contributed Ajax4jsf, a new open source project, to Java.Net, the premier web-based, open community that facilitates Java? technology collaboration in applied areas of technology and industry solutions.
Exclusively created to bring rich user interface functionality to the JavaServer Faces (JSF) world, Ajax4jsf is a rich component development framework that extends the benefits of JSF to AJAX development. Ajax4jsf allows developers to add AJAX-capability to existing JSF applications, create rich components with built-in AJAX support, create a slick user interface with Skinning technology, package Java Script files and other resources together with JSF components, and test the components functional elements in the process of components development.
More information about Ajax4jsf can be found at: https://ajax4jsf.dev.java.net
The press release about this project can be found on the Exadel website.
IN THE NEWS:
EXADEL: APPLY ECLIPSE?S MODEL TO SERVER APPS
By Edward J. Correia, SD Times, April 1, 2006
Can Eclipse be everything to everyone? A proposal now before the Eclipse Foundation suggests that what makes the pliable environment so attractive for creating customized desktop applications can do the same for server-based ones.
Read more about the framework that advocates extending Equinox ? an implementation of the OSGi framework used by Eclipse for its plug-ins ? to also include enterprise applications at http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20060401-03.html
EVENTS:
FIRST ANNUAL ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE (ROOSEVELT HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY)
Exadel is a proud sponsor of the First Annual Enterprise Open Source Conference that will take place on June 5-6, 2006 at the historical Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. This year, more than 100 distinguished conference faculty members will present cutting-edge SOA, Web Services and Enterprise Open Source topics in educational classes, panels, and keynotes in six simultaneous tracks for two information-packed days, plus a bonus track, a "Real-World AJAX" two-day seminar.
For more information on this conference please click here.