Andre’s Blog

We’re making progess on our roadmap towards better support for Java and J2EE developers in our Ajax components. Last week Dave Johnson did a webinar about Nitobi’s JSF Ajax Grid for Java Studio Creator (JSC). Our intern Agus, the “Ajax Padawan”, was a huge help in making this happen and he put together this screencast that shows you how to implement a grid in a page, most of the configuration is done in the design view without much writing code! You can drag the grid onto the design canvas, bind it to a data source and drag columns into the grid. You can also adjust certain properties in the property editor. Now Sun just has to let us get our components into the JSC update center;-) We have a special Grid JSC / JSF Download here. We’re making plans to support JSP and Struts in the near future as well. Of greater interest overall here is the ability to design and develop Java Ajax apps in a visual environment. Tooling for Java and Ajax is definitely getting better, but still has a ways to go. However, tools like JSC and frameworks like JSF are really going to help developer create great user interfaces faster, with less low-level coding and messing around. I’m really optimistic about this development and it’s continued growth once JSC is baked right into NetBeans.

Screenshot of the Nitobi Grid rendered in the JSC design view.

As always feedback is greatly appreciated! Just email me.

technorati tags:ajax, grid, datagrid, jsc, javastudiocreator, jsf, ajaxtools, ide, screencast, javaserverfaces

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