Sean Brydon's Blog: Need a Reference Application or BluePrint for AJAX and Java?

Posted by sean_brydon on May 11, 2006 at 06:42 PM | Comments (5)

Designing and building a web application using AJAX and Java EE 5 can present a lot of challenges to developers:

how much AJAX to use and where to use it
how to apply Model View Contoller and other design patterns
how to build your domain model with Java Persistence APIs
whether to return XML or HTML or JSON to service XMLHttpRequests
how to leverage RSS feeds as data sources
how to mash up with Google Map APIs to provide location-specific searches of your data
how to wrap AJAX in JSF components
how to incorporate an existing AJAX library like DOJO toolkit
how to choose a convention for JavaScript you write
and many other design choices

The Java Pet Store 2.0, Early Access, provides a reference application illustrating the blueprints for designing a complex AJAX web application on Java EE 5. The Java Petstore 2.0 runs on a Java EE application server such as the Java EE 5 SDK or the GlassFish project.

Download the first early access public release of Java Pet Store 2.0!
The download also includes a NetBeans project to make it easy to use in an IDE.

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Short video of this here

Posted by: alexismp on May 12, 2006 at 12:26 AM

Those movies are great Alexis. Its much nicer to watch a movie showing how to use Java Pet Store 2.0 with NetBeans than reading the instructions. It also helps to hightlight a feature of the early access AJAX petstore: there is a NetBeans project included in the download so its ready for NetBeans users.

Check out the page for using Java Pet Store 2.0 with NetBeans for more detail.

Posted by: sean_brydon on May 12, 2006 at 10:32 AM

is there a browsable source code (on the net) for this? i could not find it....

Posted by: gkatz on May 16, 2006 at 01:21 AM

Yes, you can browse the source code online as the cvs repository for the project is online
https://petstore.dev.java.net/source/browse/petstore/
But it is not the easiest source code browsing.

For some of the blueprints projects in the past we have posted a nice version of the source code online to browse.
Since it is our first early access release their will be changes to the code so didnt make a nicely formatted version of source online. We might do that for a future release.

The source code is included in the download
https://blueprints.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=5315&expandFolder=5315&folderID=0

Posted by: sean_brydon on May 16, 2006 at 09:51 AM

I am disapointed from the petstore 2.0.

Here the reasons why:

In modern software programming environment the developer has only
to worry about business programming. Much is done for visual
effects and nice graphics in this petstore 2.0.
I like nice effects as long as it does not bloat the
code ... Too much pain for this.

The inclusion of DOJO in the petstore is really ugly. What is
the goal of the petstore 2.0? I will appreciate a reference application that
demonstrates the flawless use of the J2EE 1.5 stack in a typical business application.

The petstore 2.0 did not work properly with firefox and opera (8.54). Platform independency
is important for java. Well, this is early access and the server runs on any platform,
but the client should be platform or vendor independent too.

The petstore 2.0 is rather a java-script reference application than a J2EE
reference application.

Here a suggestion: Rename the petstore 2.0 to something like
grocery store to demonstrate AJAX and redesign the petstore to demonstrate the use
of J2EE. In my oppinion, the petstore 1 used to be very important and answered
many questions about J2EE 1.2.

Posted by: bender75 on June 22, 2006 at 01:25 PM

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