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Tuesday October 30, 2007

I must have stolen some Aztec Gold

I hear that there was an earthquake and...

I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea....

(2007-10-30 21:40:23.0) Permalink

Monday October 29, 2007

SIP Application Development Module version 0.1 for 6.0

A little over a year ago, Ludo created a prototype NetBeans module for doing SIP Application development with NetBeans 5.5.1 and a very early release of the code that became the basis for Project Sailfin.

The code for the prototype has moved into the Project Sailfin repository and has been ported to NetBeans 6.0.

At this point there aren't many changes from Ludo's original prototype, but I figured users might want to try out the bits in 6.0.

The new features implemented by the SIP Application Development Module for NetBeans 6.0 (version 0.1) are:

• SIP Servlet template added to the Privileged List of templates associated with a web application project that uses the Converged SIP Application Framework.
  
  
• NetBeans 6.0 compatibility.

You will need to use the Plugins Manager to install the SIP Application Development Module for NetBeans 6.0 (version 0.1) into NetBeans 6.0. I haven't found a good link that describes this process, yet. When I do, I will update this entry with a pointer to that info.

More new features are in the works. These new features are discussed in the draft Functional Specification for the SIP Development Module for NetBeans 6.0. Please file issues in the issue tracker for Project Sailfin, against the "Tools" subcomponent.

(2007-10-29 17:06:29.0) Permalink

Friday October 26, 2007

Help! I need a deployment descriptor

JavaEE 5 has been a huge boost for developers. One of the best changes has been elimination of deployment descriptor files for the "80%" use-cases. That has been reflected in NetBeans. In the past, when users would create and EJB Module, the ejb-jar.xml file and the sun-ejb-jar.xml file would get created automatically. Now, they are created by wizards, at the users request.

The problem with this is the fact that there are about a gazillion wizards for new files!

So, I figured I would provide a quick visual tour to the wizards for the ejb-jar.xml and the sun-ejb-jar.xml....

Selecting the ejb-jar.xml wizard

Selecting the sun-ejb-jar.xml wizard

(2007-10-26 08:57:25.0) Permalink