http://blog.nexaweb.com Thoughts, Field Notes and News from Nexaweb Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:31:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PowerBuilder has been around and successful for almost two decades now and after many discussions with PowerBuilder developers, it has become apparent to me what the marquee feature of PowerBuilder really is.  Some developers would comment on the ease of report creation, and others on the presence of client-side processing ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/the-data-window-makes-powerbuilder-sticky/ The current state of affairs has most organizations asking IT to build business cases for new expenditures, especially when it comes to updating an application that isn't necessarily broken.  For IT, broken tends to mean that an application is getting harder to find resources to keep it current, maintenance is ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/revenue-is-key-driver-of-application-modernization/ A large percentage of outsourced, onshore and offshore resources, are skilled in XML, Java and other Internet-based languages and development techniques, meaning their ability to tinker with and add features to 3GL/4GL applications is limited at best and that cost savings of such as model is neutralized. Adding to the ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/application-modernization-paves-the-way-for-outsourced-development/ While working on an application for a client, I encountered some issues with Java's MessageFormat. In particular, I needed to pass MessageFormat a string that contained single-quotes and curly braces that would be treated literally. This is an issue, because single-quotes and curly braces are special characters in ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/a-guide-to-java-messageformat-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-macros/ Legacy applications have architectural limitations that prohibit their ability to support large scale deployments. They often necessitate servers and technicians at each location with continuous client software maintenance and service, all creating redundant headcounts, resources and costs. Application modernization toward an open, web architecture can address these technology limitations as they ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/legacy-impact-globalization-application-modernization-part-1-of-4/ I just presented a tutorial on Friday on using Direct Web Remoting, Hibernate and dojo.E.  It’s a very simple demo, but demonstrates the power of these three technologies combined to create simple, dynamic Java applications very quickly. The tutorial is available on SlideShare. DWR, Hibernate and Dojo.E - A Tutorial View ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/tutorial-hibernate-dwr-and-dojoe/ What is it? HorizontalBoxContainer and VerticalBoxContainer is a pair of layout managers that allow multiple children components to be laid out either vertically or horizontally. This is similar to BoxLayout from the Java Swing toolkit. So, why do we need Box Containers? Box layout is simple to understand and easy to use. It ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/box-layout-containers-for-dojo/ Legacy applications are an even bigger headache than was originally thought. The announcement of Nexaweb Advance has generated huge attention in the media and has caused a 400% jump in traffic to www.nexaweb.com over a normal 5 day period. Check out some of the coverage below: Nexaweb offers way ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/nexaweb-advance-getting-plenty-of-attention/ We've been working hard on a new version of our development environment and we're releasing a beta into the world. Some highlights: Data, data, data - all work flows that interact with data integration have been overhauled Supporting users that have their own Eclipse environment and don't want ours Editing our "macros" - declarative ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/new-version-of-studio-beta-available/ I have spent the last few weeks building examples using XML on top of dojo, including an XML version of the mail application (you can see it here http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/5766). 1. Setting namespace Since majority of the tags used are still html tag, it makes things much easier to set the default namespace ... http://blog.nexaweb.com/post/using-the-xml-parser/