Tag: Java

  • PlotFaces Introduction

    PlotFaces is a suite of JSF components built on top of the excellent jqPlot JavaScript charting library. The aim of PlotFaces is to make it simple for programmers to create great looking JavaScript based charts whilst also exposing the rich set of configuration options jqPlot offers. 

  • TransformerFactor AbstractMethodError

    This little hint is perhaps a bit vague but it’s not completely clear where the problem lies but I know what fixed it.

  • Subtle Subversion Problem

    Here’s a problem you don’t see everyday which really shows up the stupidity of the whole case sensitive / insensitive filesystem battle between Windows and Unix like operating systems. Fortunately a lot of work has been done to make the two different schools of thought play together nicely but occasionally something falls through the cracks…

  • JavaFX 2 with JPA 2 and Drag and Drop – Part 3

    This article will cover a method that can be used to include more than one entity type in a tree (the same system will work for other widgets such as lists and tables) by using a proxy holder. The previous articles in this series covered setting up the demo application and getting started with JPA.

  • SampleFX – Updating a Label

    The humble label is probably one of the most used widgets in the UI designers toolkit so getting to know it inside and out is important. A common task it is to update a label to display some new information depending on the state of the application. Depending on where that new information comes from…

  • SampleFX Mini-Demos

    I’ve taken a short break from the JavaFX and JPA series of articles because I wanted to start a new project that demonstrates common day to day tasks in JavaFX. I’ve called this project SampleFX5 and you can download it here.

  • JavaFX 2 with JPA 2 and Drag and Drop – Part 2

    In the first part of this series I gave an over view of the project and how to install and run it. Now I’ll cover the JPA aspects of the project.

  • XPath, JAXP and the Default Namespace

    So you’ve just finished parsing a document with your validating namespace aware document factory and you’ve gone to select some nodes using XPath and nothing has appeared (no nodes where selected). You’ve tried changing the XPath expression, making it simpler and simpler and still nothing. Chances are it’s not he XPath that’s at fault it’s…

  • How to Modify the Default NetBeans Template

    By default every single class that you create with NetBeans will start with a header that tells you how to change the template. This header has found it’s way into just about every file in all my projects and it serves no useful purpose, why it can’t just be an empty comment I don’t know…

  • Netbeans 7.3 Maven Profiler Issue

    Neatbeans 7.3 has just been released (yeah) and, like every release it has brought a host of new bugs with it. I try not to document bugs because they tend not to be around for very long and bug databases are normally a better place to look but this one falls into the difficult to…

  • NetBeans License Magic

    As a general rule I don’t include license information at the top of each source file (I’m sure a lawyer would be outraged)  because no one but me should ever see the source. I’ve recently started work on an open source project though so I thought I’d best investigate how to get NetBeans to automatically…

  • Controlling Tab Order in JavaFX2

    I, as I suspect you also do, use the JavaFX Scene Builder to put together your JavaFX interfaces. There’s certainly still work to be done on Scene Builder but even now I prefer it to any of the GUI builders I’ve used in the past for the principal reason that what you see on the…