What Makes a Web Application Enterprisey?
We’re starting writing a book for O’Reilly that’s titled “Enterprise Web Applications: From DeskTop to Mobile”. The book will be available under Creative Commons license, which means you can read it...
View ArticleMy Three Days at JavaOne 2012
After spending three days at JavaOne I’m happy to report that Java remains the most stable and reliable platform.There are some new additions to the language and the JVM that will make Java more...
View ArticleThe Degradation of Java Developers
On multiple occasions I was blogging about these legions of enterprise Java developers trained to use certain frameworks without understanding how things work under the hood. This morning I had chance...
View ArticleHow To Take a Server-Side Application To The Cloud
Our company, Farata Systems is big supported of open source and developers community. Farata’s engineers are recognizable speakers huge numbers of conferences (JavaOne, Adobe MAX, AJAX World, SOA...
View ArticleFour chapters submitted to O’Reilly
We have submitted the drafts of four chapters of the book “Enterprise Web Development: from Desktop to Mobile” to O’Reilly for review and editing. This is a pretty hands-on book as we are developing an...
View ArticleHTML5 or Flex Framework
More than a year passed since Adobe decided to stop supporting Flex framework and gave it away to Apache Foundation. This writeup is based on the conversation I had with my colleague Anatole...
View ArticleeCommerce with Hybris: Sending emails
Any eCommerce application needs to send emails once in a while, e.g. order approval, shipping notification and the like. Enabling the eEmail sending feature in a Hybris application is a multistep...
View ArticleProductive Enterprise Web Development with ExtJS and Clear Data Builder
img {max-width: 100%;} It’s not likely that you’ll start developing an enterprise HTML5 applications without using one of the JavaScript frameworks. One of the most feature-complete frameworks is...
View Articlee-Commerce with Hybris: 10 Million Product Catalog?
Last month a prospective customer called our office. “We know that you have a team of software developers that build e-commerce applications with Hybris software. Can you help us with developing our...
View ArticleThe Workspace of a Modern Programmer
Ten years from now software developers will commute to work only if they’re invited to a corporate party or they have to work for an old fashioned client. Software professionals (not the average 9-to-5...
View ArticleConfiguring Eclipse with Apache Tomcat and Ext JS
While Eclipse IDE is not the best one for JavaScript developers, it’s the most popular IDE among enterprise Java developers. If an enterprise Java developer needs to start developing in JavaScript, the...
View ArticleeCommerce with Hybris: Debugging Hybris with Beanshell from Eclipse IDE
Overview BeanShell is a Java-like dynamically typed language that allows to execute scripts in a running Java environment. You can use it to enhance the functionality of your application or to test and...
View ArticleHow we write a book for O’Reilly
In the past, to write a book the writer would need a quill pen. After a while, Microsoft Word replaced the goose feather. Today, any Word processor is not good enough. You need to have tools to...
View ArticlejQuery Mobile Chapter is Done
The draft of the jQuery Mobile chapter is done. As usual, your feedback is appreciated http://enterprisewebbook.com/#_jquery_mobile. If there is something to be changed, please open the issue on github...
View ArticleHow serious is Google about Dart?
Developing applications in JavaScript is not overly productive. You can use CoffeeScript or TypeScript to write code that will be converted into JavaScript for deployment. We are also closely watching...
View ArticleSpeaking at JavaOne 2013
I’m going to speak at JavaOne 2013, which is my new achievement unlocked! I’ll be talking about a very interesting topic – integration of Java and JavaScript. Here is quick abstract of my [BOF5793]...
View ArticleIntro to working with Git and GitHub
In October of 2013 My colleague Victor Gamov and I ran a presentation “Intro to working with GIT and GitHub” for the Princeton Java Users Group. Then we’ve received a number of requests asking if a...
View ArticleJava Swing Has to be Deprecated
Every time I start teaching my new Java class I’m looking at the Swing units in the manual asking myself, “Why my students need to know Swing framework?” Well, I need to teach them how to program GUI,...
View ArticleStarting new Web project
We had a project kickoff meeting this morning to discuss tools to be used. This is a consumer-facing single-page (SPA) Web application that will also have a back-office part to be used by the business...
View ArticleIntroducing AngularJS to Java Developers
If you want to develop Web applications, you’ll need to learn JavaScript. But writing code in JavaScript (at least in its ECMAScript 5 incarnation) is non-productive. You need to pick up a one of the...
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