J2EE/Java

Setting up a Complete JBoss Stack on Fedora 10

Beren Erchamion
December 28, 2008

I do most of my development work on Windows XP, but now that I have a decent laptop running Fedora 10 I thought I would see how it is doing something useful with the machine. I recently setup a complete…

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Building a MIDlet 2.0 App for a RIM 8100

Beren Erchamion
October 7, 2008

If you read my last post then you’ll know I’m having some fun with a RIM 8100 and J2ME programming. Last time I looked at some tools and got a “Hello World” type application deployed to my phone. Now I’m…

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J2EE/Java

Going Mobile with RIM’s BlackBerry 8100

Beren Erchamion
September 28, 2008

Recently I’ve been looking at mobile application development with J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). Programming on mobile devices really is a tricky problem. Screen sizes are all different, memory is very constrained, processors are not exactly “robust”, and even keypads…

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J2EE/Java

Using Seam 2 and JBoss Portal Pt.2

Beren Erchamion
August 17, 2008

This is the second post in my quest to screw around with JBoss Portal and Seam…the first post is here. Seam is an application framework based on several different technologies: JSF, Facelets, EJB3, and AJAX. If you are interested in…

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Liferay…I need a Life Jacket; Giving JBoss Portal a Try.

Beren Erchamion
August 8, 2008

After completing my previous post on Liferay I began to see that things were really not deploying properly from the EXT environment. I went back and tried the simpler plugins SDK and continued to experience more trouble getting just the…

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Revisiting Portals with Liferay 5.1

Beren Erchamion
July 24, 2008

I started using portals back BDB (before .bomb) with Plumtree and Epicentric portal platforms. I always believed that these tools had tremendous potential and I still do (a mashup is just a reworked portal, right?). Portal platforms showed a lot…

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