Spikes Of Nothingness - ajax tag

JPublish and reverse AJAX; new demo

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:51:29 GMT

For those of you interested in AJAX, especially in reverse AJAX ;) I
just committed to the SVN a very simple (and clean) JPublish demo
application demonstrating how to monitor a text file (log, news,
events, etc.) using reverse AJAX through the JPublishDWR module.
Obviously, you can easily tweak my code to monitor last n events from
a log file, or the newest transactions from a database, etc.

Also, for the impatient, I archived the complete application so you
can run it in no time. You can download it from the Downloads page:
http://code.google.com/p/jpublish/downloads/list and is called:
- simpledwr.war.zip

After you download the demo just be sure that, somewhere in a path, you
have a text file that you can edit and update, then modify the
home page of the application (content/index.html) and replace my path
with yours. See: FilePing.setFileName("/Users/flop/news.txt") ... and
replace /Users/flop/news.txt with the full path to the file you want to
monitor in your new and shiny AJAX enabled JPublish web application :)

Have fun!

JMaki, JPublish ... what if?

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:54:29 GMT

These days I am trying to design an additional layer for using AJAX with JPublish. Now that DWR works beautifully with JPublish, I would like to add some Ajax UI support to JPublish to be used in the Views, something like the old AjaxTags, not via any taglibs definitely, but a streamlined AJAX support for our Velocity or Freemarker templates. This is where Rails excels again :(

I browsed again the web for finding some Ajax macros for Velocity or Freemarker (JPublish's favorite template managers) but nothing so far.

And then I found something very cool: JMaki. There is a demo showing JMaki and DWR working together and I am almost convinced, but I'll have to write some more integration tests and only after that I'll try to see how JMaki can be integrated with JPublish; I'll let you know how it goes.

If you're a Glassfish user, then find some time to spend and play with JMaki; JMaki is very nice.

I'll keep you tuned.
-florin

AJAX-DWR and TAG CLOUD code is now available in the new JPublish repository

Sun, 20 May 2007 02:14:03 GMT

After a couple of intense days of code cleaning, tweaking, testing and some more development (long week-end here in Canada), I committed the newest version of our AJAX-DWR and the TagCloud support for JPublish. You can grab the source from our new repository.

I am also thinking to implement some Wiki support for our ViewRenderer, so you could for example use Wiki syntax through RADEOX for pages where you don't really need the template logic of Velocity or FreeMarker. My favorite Wiki syntax is Textile and Markdown, but I am only familiar with the RADEOX implementation for now. Anyway, one of these will be supported by JPublish, and should be relatively easy to implement, so stay tuned; JPublish just started to be more interesting :)

Have a nice long week-end,
-florin

PS
Hmm, I just found a Markdown implementation in Java, MarkdownJ ... niceeeeee :)