There’s not much improvement since my first look at free Flex IDEs. The use of a full-blown visual designer is still a challenge. So, Flex Builder for Windows is still your first choice – and worth every penny.
Nevertheless, if you are not one of those full time Flex developers and only wanna have a look at what already exists, e.g. for code reviews, these free alternatives can help:
MoreToday I was surprised by Loveley Charts, a new application based on Flex that can replace Visio in the near future. Last weekend I already read about Buzzword, a Word replacement, and SlideRocket, a Powerpoint replacement. So, there’s only an Excel replacement missing 
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Yes, the AJAX guys already deliver a lot of replacements to get your office online. But, tweaks in usage are still a point of discussion.
AJAX is limited to ...
MoreI’m working with different JSF frameworks for some time now and had a look back to the Struts-based Common-Controls recently.
My last hands-on on Struts was in 2003. So, I can’t remember in detail if I had a good or bad feeling about using it. I remember that I chose it to get faster results. The learning curve was quite steep. But, reconsidering the time-frame I had the result was ok to me.
Todays JSF experiences in mind it was ...
MoreI had another look at NetBeans 5.5, incl. the Enterprise and Visual Web Packs, as some comments suggested. Although, the comparison of a full-blown NetBeans with a standard Eclipse WTP is a bit unfair, I don’t use e.g. myEclipse, I tried to compare apples and oranges.
Well, for short: if you worked with Eclipse for some time you feel like driving your car with an active emergency brake. Most annoying, the Netbeans IDE stops for seconds from time to time ...
MoreIf you develop with JSF products you should try to get rid of “tag-based” and get something “visual”. JSF is component-based and similar to the good old GUI development, a lot of us did a decade ago with Delphi, Visual Basic and the like.
If you have a look at OpenSource and cost-free products, there’s not much you can call “visual development”. New in this circle of cost-free wannabes is Exadel Studio Pro.
I already had a look at their standard ...
MoreThe useful becomes better. The Eclipse plugin Spring IDE, that helps to develop your complexer enterprise stuff easier, is announced to become release status in the near future. There are already milestones.
Further reading:
Spring IDE powering ahead
Spring IDE features in Spring IDE 2.0 M1
Spring IDE 2.0 coming soon
For about three years now there’s a debate about using the Singleton pattern. Some call it evil, anti-pattern, and the like. If you have a look at the Gang of Four (GoF) patterns you’ve to realize that they are still present in the community, even more than 10 years after first publishing of the book. Patterns are commodity and the grandmasters can’t be wrong with their invention, you may think.
It’s not easy to kill a pattern like the ...
MoreSun is doing a tremendous investment in Netbeans at the moment. I don’t really know why they are doing this. Well yes, in comparison to Eclipse it is necessary to get a kind of equalization. But, it’s still clear that Netbeans has lost it’s position to become number one in the IDE standards field. The Eclipse community became too big the last years to still fight against it for win. For me, Sun is burning money. Would be nice if ...
MoreIch arbeite jetzt schon einige Zeit mit der Eclipse 3.2 WTP 1.5 und bin recht zufrieden. Selbst auf älteren Rechnern kommt sie noch ganz gut aus dem Quark und läuft stabil (wenn man die richtigen Plugins an Board hat).
Da ich schon seit einiger Zeit nach einer Integrationsmöglichkeit für den OC4J im Kontext zu Maven 2.x suche, probiere ich immer mal wieder etwas aus. Von der Theorie ist es ganz einfach. Aber die Implementierungen der Plugins lassen doch einiges zu Wünschen ...
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Since the mid-1990s Rainer worked as a consultant, developer, architect, team leader, systems engineer, project manager, scrum master and scrum coach – since 2000 with a strong focus on JEE. He was also part of “the source” for 3 years working at Sun Microsystems, Germany.
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