http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/ en-us 2008-06-25T13:19:53-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/06/introducing_the.html Yesterday Gregg Sporar, Roman Strobl and I launched The Observatory, a blog dedicated to those learning to use OpenSolaris. Community bleonard 2008-06-25T13:19:53-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/06/opensolaris_200_3.html Looking at the MySQL web site, the instructions for Installing MySQL Community Server seem more complicated then they need to be. Maybe that's because there are no instructions for OpenSolaris (yet - I hope). Here are the easy steps that got me up and running. Community bleonard 2008-06-23T12:25:55-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/06/opensolaris_200_1.html Unfortunately, NetBeans 6.1 has not yet made it into the package repository for OpenSolaris 2008.05 yet. Here's how to install it. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2008-06-19T10:56:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/opensolaris_200.html OpenSolaris 2008.05 has a sweet NVIDIA settings utility, but using it isn't as easy as it should be. Community bleonard 2008-05-29T09:06:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html Interested in trying out OpenSolaris 2008.05 on your MacBook? In the blog entry I walk you through the steps I took to get there. Community bleonard 2008-05-27T16:07:17-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/04/drag_drop_with.html The ability to drag and drop has been a staple of desktop applications for years. With the advent of Ajax, the ability to drag and drop has now found its way to web applications. In this entry I spice up the blogging application we've been building with the ability to drag comments to the trash. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2008-04-18T11:45:27-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/04/autovalidation.html A common question following my Ruby on Rails lectures is how to validate against a database. In this blog entry I do just that, but with the added bonus of incorporating Ajax to avoid the page submit. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2008-04-16T12:31:44-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/03/blogging_for_do.html The NetBeans team has started a blogging contest. Simply download the NetBeans 6.1 Beta and tell us your thoughts. What, you're not a blogger? Well then, I list some places for you to get started. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2008-03-18T11:37:49-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/01/hello_grails_1.html The recently released NetBeans 6.1 M1 brings with is the beginnings of support for Groovy and Grails. In this post I create a Grails implementation of the basic web log we've been using for our Rails tutorials. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2008-01-30T18:37:20-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/01/testing_rails_a.html All Rails applications include unit, functional and integration test facilities. In this entry I address all three of these test types as I put the Ruby Weblog application to the test. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2008-01-04T11:04:35-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2007/12/an_introduction_3.html In this entry I apply lessons learned to present a better alternative to the AJAX implementation of the Ruby Web Log sample application. No longer is the entire list of comments refreshed. Rather, our new comment is efficiently inserted into the bottom of the list. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2007-12-04T16:25:49-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2007/09/rails_and_jpa_i.html Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I wondered what it would take to replace ActiveRecord with JPA in the classic blog demo. After discussing the concept with a developer I met at RailsConf last week, I decided to go ahead and publish my results. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2007-09-26T08:30:52-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2007/08/rails_to_java_v.html Since I've been studying the Rails framework, I've had an interest in integration with Java. Yes, JRuby is one possible solution, but if you have some large Java system that you want to integrate with, it' unlikely that you're just going to get the jar files to access that system's APIs. More likely is that system will expose itself as a service, and the service type du jour is REST. So, in this entry I'm going to expose an entity class as a RESTful web service and then create a Rails client for that entity. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2007-08-16T15:37:32-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2007/07/an_introduction_1.html So, REST based web services are simpler than SOAP, right? Then why's it so difficult to create a REST based web service in Java? Using tools I can crank out a SOAP based web service in seconds - not so easy with REST. But help is on the way. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2007-07-18T12:54:36-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2007/07/using_selection.html Selection lists (drop down boxes) are common to just about every web application. In this entry I extend the web log I've been building to include a category selection list. Community: NetBeans bleonard 2007-07-10T07:17:13-08:00