Winston Prakash's Weblog
Starting my blog again at Sun
After a brief stint at a startup, I joined back at Sun a month ago (the same day when Oracle agreed to buy Sun). Immediately after joining, I got busy in the project called Project Vector (recently blogged by Jonathan Schwartz) and didn't find time to blog. I'm excited to be in the JavaFX team and planning to write JavaFX tidbits in my blog.
Also, I'll continue to cover Java Server Faces, which I think is the best Web UI framework in the market. I talked to Ed Burns (JSF spec lead) today at Community ONE, and glad to know from him that JSR 314: JavaServer Faces 2.0 has been approved. I'm going to read the final draft of the JSF 2.0 and voice my opinion.
During my startup days, I had the great opportunity to learn Eclipse and developed several eclipse plugins. I have become a fan of Eclipse PDE (Plugin Development Environment). I was wondering why so many startups choose Eclipse as their choice of development tool. Now I get it. However, Eclipse Java EE Web development tool, which is huge and awkward., is no way near to Netbeans Java EE development tool in terms of elegance and ease of development.
I'm glad to be back and start blogging.
Posted at 04:18PM Jun 01, 2009 | Permanent link to this entry
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Recent Entries - Netbeans
- Starting my blog again at Sun
- My last blog as a Sun Employee
- Generic Web Page Designer for Netbeans, anyone?
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- VW tip: Automatically setting focus to next form element
- Visual Web FAQ revised for NB 6.1
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- Netbeans 6.0 has been released. Download it now!
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- NB 6.0 Tip: Finding the examples for Visual Web Woodstock AJAX Components
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- Releasing Sun Java Studio Creator as Visual Web Pack for Netbeans 5.5
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- Sun Java Studio Creator Web based training
- Redploying to Tomcat Server from Java Studio Creator
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- Creator Tip: Making the table component look different
- Sun Java Studio Creator Training at San Francisco
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- Creator Tip: Work around for Object List Data Provider design time problem
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- Creator Tip: Setting table column or row style
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- Creator Tip: Using CSS Layout Technique
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Thanks for the insight on the role of PDE. And very welcome back, Winston!
Posted by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart on June 01, 2009 at 05:06 PM PDT #
Glad to hear that, welcome back!
Posted by Varun Nischal on June 01, 2009 at 11:28 PM PDT #
welcome back winston
Posted by walid on June 02, 2009 at 02:22 AM PDT #
Welcome Winston
Posted by aristides villarreal bravo on June 02, 2009 at 08:07 AM PDT #
It is very happy to look your blog.
I got many Know How from your blog about Java Studio Creator.
Posted by Sotohiro Terashima on June 02, 2009 at 12:07 PM PDT #
Nice to see you here again.
I hope you'll continue to write about JSF.
Posted by Emil Hurmuzov on June 03, 2009 at 02:13 AM PDT #
I'm glad seeingg yiu back at sun.
I hope you will have the chance to show sun's new owners, why netbeans rules!
Posted by Daniel on June 29, 2009 at 04:06 PM PDT #
Hi Winston,
Glad to hear you're back at Sun.
After hearing about Oracle buying Sun I got a bit nervous about conflicting tools and their futures.
Sun currently has Sun Web Server, Sun Glassfish Enterprise, Netbeans and many other conflicting toolsets, any idea what Oracle plans to do with these?
JDeveloper is not even close to NetBeans, and I don't believe that the new Oracle Fusion app server can beat GF.
Let me know what you think/know.
Thanks,
Dan
Posted by Dan on July 02, 2009 at 04:01 PM PDT #
Do you know if this is dead? It's a great idea, and I might like to contribute to it.
http://blogs.sun.com/winston/entry/web_page_designer_for_netbeans
Posted by Kevin Daly on July 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM PDT #
Hi Winston,
visual web and woodstock developers need your help to come out of the death end.
Since many people probably still asking you, how to go on with their vwp projects,
can you please inform them, there is an issue running on this problem:
Please VOTE for http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=169820
Posted by Jockers on August 17, 2009 at 08:58 AM PDT #
Hi Winston,
Glad you're back. Same vein with Jockers, I hope you can help revive Project Woodstock. Its in a league above others. I'm just wondering why it was abandoned. Until now not one of its alternatives we've evaluated comes near. Why did they stop when they're ahead (in the Visual Web Designer area)? This is not boxing where the boxer should stop way ahead way before he starts stattering from head-bangs.
I know many programmers, both new and 'old-time', who went for NetBeans because of its Visual Web Designer and its not difficult to think why. It is obviously NetBeans front armor in web app development. Sometimes its hard to think why the marketing guys were not pushing VWP as the NetBeans spearhead. Its such a good tool. Experienced programmers can get over immediately with the visuals. They don't have to code <input type="submit"...> and could just go to what they think are the meatier areas to code. New programmers can immediately be made to be up to speed in gui then go to learning java coding in NetBeans.... Sometimes one really wonders what really happened to Sun's marketing ... specially now with oracle clouds gathering.
Posted by Delirio on September 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM PDT #
Hi Winston,
Just wondered if your original Idea was still possible.
http://blogs.sun.com/winston/entry/web_page_designer_for_netbeans
For me this is the one area where Netbeans is lacking. particularly for PHP development - it would be an excellent tool for PHP if it had this too.
Cheers,
Andy
Posted by Andy on November 20, 2009 at 02:09 AM PST #