Jul 04, 2008
fig 1. Property Bindings.
With property binding you can define the way a property is calculated. This statement is usually based on a javascript expression including one or more properties on other objects. The value of the property will always be kept up to date. This means that when one [...]
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Jul 04, 2008
fig 1. Model-view-controller.
I’m not someone that knows the intricate details of design patterns. Whilst trying to tell people how Javeline PlatForm works I’ve often used the MVC design pattern to describe the functions. It’s even in the JumpStart Guide. In writing this article I talked to Arnold Daniels, who [...]
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Jul 03, 2008
We had a nice presentation at JTeam’s Tech Meeting today. It wasn’t recorded on video, but I do want to share the slides, and the demo’s. JTeam is a Java oriented company that works a lot with the Spring Framework. They have quite some experience with GWT. For us a challenge to show them the [...]
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Jun 28, 2008
It has been buzzing around the community lately. A great deal of attention has come my way as well. Today I received an interesting question from Yuvaraj Thiagarajan. He wants to know what Javeline PlatForm is exactly, and how it relates to other frameworks. Rather than answering it in the comments, I wanted to give [...]
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Jun 28, 2008
I receive a licensing question from Yuvaraj Thiagarajan. Here is the question and my answer:
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Jun 16, 2008
During the creation of an Ajax applications there are many occasions when data is needed from an external or internal datasource. Often this data will be changed and is then sent back where it came from, or stored for later use. At a certain point I found myself using many different ways to retrieve data, [...]
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Jun 15, 2008
It was somewhere in 2002 or 2003 when I was looking for a method to position widgets on a plane. It was an early version of Javeline PlatForm and up until that moment I had only positioned elements using anchoring. I remembered a nice feature of Visual Basic, which allowed you to align components to [...]
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Jun 15, 2008
In this article I show you how to control the backbutton in your Javeline PlatForm application. I’ll take you step by step through creating a breadcrumb navigation for a typical product database site. It uses 4 states (similar to pages in static websites). The key to this implementation is that all state information is encoded [...]
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May 28, 2008
Yesterday I was at KingsOfCode, a great get together for developers with talks by PPK and John Resig among others. I had the honor of having a 5 minute pitch about Javeline PlatForm. For those of you who want to see the presentation slides I’ve put them online here (dutch only, sorry!).
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Apr 13, 2008
We at Javeline have released Javeline Platform under the GPL license. However GPL isn’t an easy license and therefor there is much confusion around it. To make matters worse, GPL isn’t written with script languages in mind as it talks about source code and object code. Than there is always the difficult question; Is this [...]
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