Websockets

Want a websocket solution try pusher it is awesome, very simple to setup and use.

I used Java server side with the following lib https://github.com/SScheuermann/gae-java-libpusher

Push notifications made simple....

Blog Name Change

Hello, guys and gals, from today my blog name is changing to reflect a truer title for the content.

For a while I have mostly posted about web app development and not just netbeans.

So from today my blog will be entitled "Neils Dev Stuff".

You can still expect netbeans stuff too.......

NetBeans 7.1 Released

The best version so far in my opinion, very stable loads of features great job.

From a web developers perspective my favourite features are the new re-factoring and CSS3 support.

For me NetBeans 7.1, EXTJS, PACKTAG and DWR are all you need to build good one page web apps.

Although not part of the release the new JSLINT plugin is really good, running JavaScript through jslint has saved me hours of debugging.

Get NetBeans 7.1 here for a full set of features go here.

Still no usable Geronimo support though.

NetBeans 7.1 Beta released

I took NetBeans 7.1 beta for a spin, feels faster and stable.

Will post more when I have had a chance to check it out further.

Web app builds with NB

Some of the Java libs I use when building web apps with nb :-

• Checking JavaScript files during netbeans build I use http://code.google.com/p/jslint4java/  with http://jslint4java.googlecode.com/svn/docs/1.4/ant.html this has saved me hours of debugging especially IE 6/7/8
• Authentication, http://shiro.apache.org/
• Password encryption I use http://www.jasypt.org/
• Minimising and combining Javascript files http://www.galan.de/projects/packtag I no longer do this at the build stage. This is a cool tag lib that is simple to use and works really well.
• RPC Lib - http://directwebremoting.org/dwr/index.html saves a lot of faffing about, looking forward to the new release.

Useful netbeans plugin anyone?

A really useful netbeans plugin can be found in the plugin portal here , thanks to Geertjan Wielenga

Netbeans Geronimo Plugin

I was excited to find that a plugin available here was finally available for Geronimo app server in NB7 only to find it doesn't work for the latest versions of Geronimo.

There is a dependency on Geronimo version 2.0.2 which is still available from Apache archives, however there has been several security fixes since this release.

So I thought lets give Geronimo v2.0.2 a try and see if the plugin works, it doesn't. I can get web apps deployed if I manually start Geronimo via the plugin. The plugin fails to start Geronimo though.

Platforms RHEL5 and win7 have the same issues.

Oh well perhaps one day......