Post about the progress of the SMTP Dummy NetBeans plug-in

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On Friday I went on-leave, and being a complete geek I quickly filled my time with some personal programming assignments. For a long time I’ve been wanting to look more into the NetBeans Platform and explore how to build stand-alone applications based on the platform. For the past ten years I’ve almost solely been developing [...]

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For this weeks JSF tip, I’ll show you how to send binary data (such as a file) to the user by way of an action handler or listener. Say, you want to generate a custom PDF and send it to the user as he clicks a link. You need a JSF page, and a backing [...]

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It has been a busy year so far. Every year I start out thinking that I really need to relax because the previous year was too hectic, but every year it ends up being much more hectic. Anyway, I thought I’d post a JSF quick time that might shave some headache for people developing internationalised [...]

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Just as the year was ended I got a great Christmas present from Sun Microsystems. 1) A cool NetBeans 10 year anniversary T-shirt for participating in the community acceptance test programme for NetBeans 6.5 (NetCAT) 2) A pass on my exam to become Sun Certified Specialist for NetBeans IDE The exam was special to me [...]

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A thing that always annoys me about installing Java is that it doesn’t automatically set up the JAVA_HOME environment variable after installation. I guess this is to avoid having problems when you have multiple virtual machines installed. Anyway, I use Ubuntu Linux to host the majority of my Java Application Server. It is easy install [...]

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If you have a custom converter or validator you may provide these with the option of letting developers specify attributes. For example, let’s say that we are creating a converter that will allow the formatting of a Calendar object. Note, that the <f:convertDateTime /> is for Date objects (which can be easily retrieved from a [...]

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During the development of my latest pet project I decided to go head-on with many of the latest Java Enterprise APIs. One of these was the Java Persistence API (JPA), which I had already used in a handful of projects before. On previous projects the persistence requirements were very simple. I could use JPA out-of-the-box [...]

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For the past five months or so, I’ve had the pleasure of participating as a contributing author and editor of the recently released Apress publication, “MyFaces and Facelets – The Definitive Guide”. It was a great experience that I hope that I’ll be able to relive in the near future on other book writing projects. [...]

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Being part of the NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing (NetCAT) Programme has definate advantages. For one, you get to try out all the new features planned and influence how they will work before being released to the general public (that is not quite true….anyone can download the daily development builds). One of the features in the [...]

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