Max Katz

To some, RIA (Rich In­ternet Ap­pli­ca­tions) is a myth, a tale of the past. People still have a hard time defining what it means ex­actly. What is true, though, is that an ex­plo­sive growth in client-​​side pre­sen­ta­tion tech­nolo­gies (Flash/​Flex, Sil­verlight, JavaFX) br... (more)

It’s been a while since I posted any news JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse, but we’ve been working hard on the following new features: Code assist for syntax keywords Code assist for system classes Code assist for attributes of system classes Code assist for user classes Code assist for... (more)

This is a second post in Learning JSF 2 series. The first one on Managed Beans can be found here. Before I start, thanks to Nick Belaevski (RichFaces Team Lead – Exadel) for reviewing this posting. In JSF 1.2 all navigation rules are placed in JSF configuration file. Although y... (more)

News release: CITYTECH’s Innovative JavaFX Dashboard Piques Interest at JBoss World. I spoke with CITYTECH folks and saw the application at JBoss World. The application looked great, it’s an excellent example of an enterprise RIA application with JavaFX. The back-end is Seam-bas... (more)

During my RichFaces session at JBoss World 2009, I showed three small examples of using Ajax with RichFaces 3.3, JSF 2, and RichFaces 4. I thougth it would be a good idea to show you the difference or more correct the similarities between the three. I will be blogging more about ... (more)

I’m doing 1-day RichFaces workshop in Nuremberg, Germany during Herbstcampus conference. Enter “Max Katz” in the registration code “Buchungscode” field to get 10% discount. ... (more)

This article is also posted on JavaLobby.com This is a guest post by Anton Polyakov. Anton is Senior Developer at Exadel, he describes our experience building a JavaFX front end for a Seam booking application. JavaFX is new tool set for developing and delivering Rich Internet A... (more)

I will be teaching a 1-day RichFaces workshop in Nuremberg, Germany during Herbstcampus conference. The workshop is Monday, September 14th. If you are starting a new RichFaces project, this is the perfect place to learn all the core concepts, tags and features in just one day. If... (more)

Check out this cool screen shot of our JavaFX server-side push demo. The back-end is Seam. Server-side push is implemented with Flamingo. You can drag and drop servers into the rectangles to get live updates. We will be showing this demo at JBoss World 2009 in Chicago in Septembe... (more)

I’m starting a series called Learning JSF 2 on my blog. It will cover JSF 2 with emphasis on new features. Every post will cover a different features, the first one covers managed beans. Managed bean is a regular Java bean with a fancy name. When we register the bean with JSF it... (more)

You can now view or download and deploy one of the first real enterprise JavaFX application. We took the popular Seam booking demo application and created JavaFX UI for it. The JavaFX side is connected to Seam via Flamingo RIA framework. View online You can view and run the app... (more)

Pro JavaFX Platform is a fantastic book to learn JavaFX. The book was written by Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, and Dean Iverson. The book comes with numerous samples that you can run and learn from. I’m going to show you how to important these applications into Exadel Java... (more)

We have released Exadel JavaFX Studio plug-in for Eclipse version 1.0.2 . The biggest feature in this version is error markers in the editor. Previously the compiler would run and report the errors in standard Eclipse console but wouldn’t put error markers in editor. How to get ... (more)

Exadel Flamingo RIA framework comes with CRUD application generator. Using the maven-based generator, you can easily generate JavaFX user interfaces connected to Spring or Seam back-ends. In this post I showed how to do it Seam. Let’s do the same with Spring framework. There are ... (more)

Flamingo 1.8.2 was released. It’s mostly bug fixes and we improved JavaFX-Spring integration. Read more on Exadel blog ». As for what’s coming up, Flamingo 2.0 will have JavaFX server-side push feature. ... (more)

If you are starting to learn JSF 2, this post by Andy Schwartz is an excellent place to start. It summarises and gives an excellent overview of features in JSF 2. ... (more)

More than a year ago Exadel used Flamingo RIA framework to create Flex and JavaFX interfaces for the popular Seam booking application in addition to standard JSF UI. You can still find the original applications running here. You can register once and login using any user interfac... (more)

I will be attending and presenting at Herbstcampus conference in Nuremberg, Germany, September 14-17th, 2009 for the 2nd year. I have two sessions and full day RichFaces workshop. Workshop 1-day RichFaces workshop Monday, September 14th, 9:40-18:00 More info. Sessions Rich Enterp... (more)

Error markers are coming to Exadel JavaFX Studio plug-in for Eclipse script editor. We are planning to release version 1.0.2 next week. In the current version, errors are only displayed in Eclipse console and clicking on them won’t take you to the error. Here is how it looks (sim... (more)

I’m guessing not many knew that Exadel had a blog at http://blog.exadel.com. One reason is that we didn’t post anything new there for some time. I’m happy to announced that we have re-launched the blog. We will make sure to post important and interesting information a lot more ... (more)