Tuesday January 25, 2005
Designtime API Guide Available Joe Nuxoll has published the Creator Design Time API Guide for JSF components. This guide tells you how to add design time behavior to your components such that users of your components can have a rich experience with them in the IDE - you can create interactive wizards run at component drop, write customizers for the components, allow your components to specify which components are allowed as children of your container component, etc. etc. I have a special fondness for these APIs since they are how you can "talk" to the designer :-) (The API javadocs have been available online for a while.)
He will also soon be hosting an online chat on the subject. If you're a JSF component developer you definitely want to both read the article in depth and check out the chat!
Joe has a blog but it looks like he needs a nudge to start writing... Take it away, Joe!
(2005-01-25 20:51:17.0) Permalink Comments [1]Open Solaris
There's some exciting Solaris news today -- the first part of Solaris has been open sourced (with the rest on the way - and also, a record 1,600 Sun patents have been released.)
I'm a big Solaris fan - I used SunOS in college, and since then I've been at Sun for nine years where Solaris has been my primary development platform. The first five years at Sun I worked on the Solaris development tools, mostly the debugger, so I really got to get close to the metal. I therefore found Bryan Cantrill's blog entry on the just released Solaris DTrace code really interesting -- I love source code snippets with juicy comments!
Now that I work on Creator, the platform focus is different since we're trying to
address other platforms like Windows, Linux and OSX. Most of my coworkers work
on those platforms, so I'm the primary "Solaris advocate" in our group.
I work at home three days a week (let's not count the number of nights...)
and it's all on Solaris. On my two days going down to the Sun campus I work
on OSX with my Apple laptop. I really like OSX since I can find a terminal, and
treat it like Unix with a pretty GUI. But I sure miss Solaris facilities like
the p-tools (pgrep, pkill, ptree, ...).
