JBuilder 2005 at BorCon
Posted by admin, Tue Sep 14 10:50:57 UTC 2004
Well, this is my first ever BorCon. Quite interesting, given that we have a brand-spanking new version of JBuilder. Since I’ve been holding off on re-designing one of my older web applications pending the release of JSF, I decided it would be good to concentrate on the JSF sessions. On the weekend, I attended an excellent tutorial by Jeff Swisher on JSF. Since he’s actually been implementing JSF solutions for months now, he had a lot of great information to impart. I particularly liked the way he contrived errors in his examples, in order to illustrate the causes of some of the more obscure error messages that are generated by the JSF framework. Valuable stuff. It’ll save me hours, if not days, tracking down problems once I get going.
The next JSF session I attended was given by Karl Ewald. Since he was one of the Borland developers who worked on the JBuilder JSF support, I had high hopes for this session, and I was not disappointed. Interestingly, unlike Jeff Swisher, who spent most of his time messing about in the faces configuration editor, Karl used the new “Flow” tab on his JSP examples. He showed us how to “sketch out” an entire web application in minutes, generating skeleton artifacts as he went. Wow. A completely different kind of work-flow, but I liked it, and I think it will be a huge productivity booster.
Now, I just have to find a little free time to start using this stuff myself…
