Jonas Jacobi

A fast-moving Comet is about to impact the Internet. When it hits, it will wipe away the architecture flaws we have lived with for the past 15 years and allow a new World Wide Web to evolve. This new Web will include applications that are instantly on and always on, applications... (more)

Jonas Jacobi's JSF/Ajax and Trinidad Blog I recognize that my blog has been quiet for some time, but there is a reason: Kaazing Corporation. Kaazing Corporation is essentially realizing a dream, a dream to start a company. Now, we (John Fallows and myself) are about to publicly l... (more)

This is our last article in a series of four that have been introducing the concepts of creating AJAX-enabled JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. In this article we are going to summarize and encapsulate the concepts that were introduced in the three previous JDJ articles starting... (more)

In our previous JDJ article - Rich Internet Components with JavaServer Faces - we discussed how JavaServer Faces can fulfill new presentation requirements without sacrificing application developer productivity building Rich Internet Applications (RIA). We discussed how JSF compon... (more)

Jonas Jacobi's Blog Bigger, better, and beefier, or smaller, smarter, and sexier? Which one do you prefer? Personally, I think the AJAXWorld organizers have managed to blend the two extremely well at previous conferences and now with Jeremy's SYS-CON.TV Webcast announcing twice a... (more)

There's a common misconception among many end users, consumers, and developers that AJAX is the ultimate solution for the Web and that it can provide all the same functionality as a rich desktop solution. Sure, AJAX can cover most of our expectations for a rich client, mimicking ... (more)

This is our last article in a series of four that have been introducing the concepts of creating AJAX-enabled JavaServer Faces (JSF) components. In this article we are going to summarize and encapsulate the concepts that were introduced in the three previous articles starting wit... (more)

One of the 2006 Soccer World Cup highlights must surely be the Trinidad and Tobago versus Sweden game. The underdogs Trinidad and Tobago managed to push off the onslaught from the Swedish team. The game ended 0-0, which was for the people of Trinidad and Tobago a divine experienc... (more)

This article is based on, and contains excerpts from, the book Pro JSF: Building Rich Internet Components by Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows, published by Apress. Book is available on fine bookstores and Amazon. In our previous article - "Rich Internet Components with JavaServer Fac... (more)

In an effort to provide developers with a productive environment, Oracle has been working on a very rich UI component framework for several years. This framework - ADF Faces - has now been donated to the open source community. More precisely, it has been donated to the Apache Sof... (more)

Long Live Project Trinidad a.k.a ADF Faces! Well, after roughly 2 years in the public the ADF Faces component library receives a new name - Project Trinidad. It has been a fantastic ride being part of one of the most successful and complete JSF component libraries in the market, ... (more)

Can a client-side AJAX solution and server-side Faces solution co-exist and play well together? Or are they each solving a similar problem in a different and incompatible way? The authors of Pro JSF and Ajax,  Jonas Jacobi and John R. Fallows, will discuss how the JavaServer Face... (more)

In our last article - "JSF and AJAX" (JDJ, Vol. 11, issue 1) - we discussed how JavaServer Faces component writers can take advantage of the new Weblets Open Source project (http://weblets.dev.java.net) to serve resources such as JavaScript libraries, icons, and CSS files directl... (more)

This article is based on, and contains excerpts from, the book Pro JSF: Building Rich Internet Components by Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows, published by Apress. Book is now available on fine bookstores and Amazon as of February 25, 2006. JavaServer Faces (JSF) standardizes the s... (more)

Rich Internet Technology Patent? I thought I had seen it all, but apparently not. Someone has got a patent approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for any type of Rich Client Technology (patent no. 7,000,180)?! I first thought it was a hoax (and I still hope it i... (more)