rchrd: Photos from SC09
Here are some images from the Sun booth at SC09: From Portland SC09 Click on the image to see the pictures on Picasaweb
Here are some images from the Sun booth at SC09: From Portland SC09 Click on the image to see the pictures on Picasaweb
How 'bout some funky soul for today's FBB, with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings :
This entry covers registering servers and components as Windows Services,so you no longer need to start them by hand on reboot. Install as described in Installing Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 . Log on as Administrator or a member of the local group of Administrators. Register…
We've updated the Single Host Deployment Example for Communications Suite 7 . This example describes how to install the entire Sun Java Communications Suite 7 software "stack" on one computer for a functioning deployment. This document is intended for any evaluator, system…
Navigation made easy Here are some tips about navigating your Writer text documents. How to scroll exactly one page down or up If you read a long text document, you might want to scroll down page by page. But if you press the PageDown key or click in the empty space below the slider on the vertical…
Hi everyone, We're running a reader poll over on the JavaFX blog . We'd like to know your thoughts on screencasting vs. written tutorials. Please take a minute to visit that page and leave a comment. We greatly value your opinion! - Scott Hommel
A new attribute has been added to the Advanced properties to support REST policy calls from the Client SDK to the new Entitlement Service. The com.sun.identity.policy.client.useRESTProtocol property is added to the Advanced -> Custom Properties section of the agent profile with a value of true to…
This entry takes you through Directory Server Enterprise Editioninstallation on Windows Server 2008, showing screen shots taken while installingDirectory Service Control Center with Directory Server and DirectoryProxy Server on a Windows system. I wrote a similar entry for DSEE 6.0 in March 2007 .…
Congratulations to the DSEE 7.0 team! Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 released today. You can download the software for your platform at http://www.sun.com/software/products/directory_srvr_ee/get1.jsp . The documentation should follow shortly at…
The following information concerns extending the end user password reset or forgot password feature to include Identity Manager 8.1.0.5 to be released sometime in October. (I wrote this weeks ago but forgot to publish it.) In a deployment that has both products integrated, a user needs the option to…
We'll be at Supercomputing 09 in Portland this week, at the Sun Booth. Stop by and say hello, if you're attending. I hope to have more to say about this years annual event, so stay tuned.
Do you have a desktop application that you'd like to distribute to a wider audience? How about monetizing your application by showcasing it on the Java Store? Check out the screencast for valuable information about how to accomplish this. Download the source code for the Menu Application shown…
Good summary here for Convergence and setting mail quotas.
daBrain is up to it again, this time detailing his installation of the complete Communications Suite 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Have a read, it's an enlightening experience.
Big Joe Williams and his nine-string guitar doing "Baby Please Don't Go." Some more info on Joe and his guitar: He played with picks both on his thumb and index finger, plus hisguitar was very heavily modified. Williams added a rudimentary electricpick-up,whose wires coiled all…
What better day than Friday the 13th to write about the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) schema used by the Entitlements Service to write the privilege objects returned by Those Darlin'OpenSSO REST Policy Evaluation Interfaces . JSON is relatively easy to read and understand. According to…
Tim Boudreau did a pub-based review (PBR) of the Wicket plugin last night and here are the (somewhat cryptic) notes I took of the session: use treebuilder class enable wicket error annotations suggest next wicket id, based on what is closest import statements should be filled in by template …
IAV in Berlin, Germany, "is one of the leading providers of engineering services to the automotive industry." Their core competencies include powertrain, electronics and vehicle development. The NetBeans team gave a development group from IAV a NetBeans Platform Certified Training , in…
Vimal P., Sun quality assurance engineer extraordinaire, has joined the blogosphere with his first post (well, second if you count the Hello, World test). Here's Vimal's one line description: This blog describes how to setup the Single Sign On between Access Manager 7.1+ SAMLv2plugin acting…
Just a heads up, in case you get the following messaging when trying to access a page on the Communications Suite wiki : Controlled Access Area You cannot view this page Page level restrictions have been applied that limit access to this page. Though this message sounds like we are control…
The new resource authentication feature (as documented Resource Authentication Type in OpenSSO Express 8 ) can also be enabled for deployments that use OpenSSO policy agents - either Web Agents or J2EE Agents. To enable resource authentication, a URL in the agent profile must be modified by…
Several years ago we converted the 100+ examples in the Swing Tutorial to NetBeans projects. We have received several reports of people having trouble opening those NetBeans projects and we have learned that, as of NetBeans 6.5, a tag is now required in the project.xml file, even if that tag is…
NetBeans screencasts can be found here, which is where you end up when you type "netbeans.tv" in your browser: http://channelsun.sun.com/video/open-source/ Once you are there, click "NetBeans". If you click the small scrolling arrow below the thumbnails (look at the mouse…
Piggybacking on the information in The OpenSSO REST Interfaces in Black / White , OpenSSO Express 9 will mark the release of the RESTful interfaces for policy evaluation. All of them support both HTTP GET and POST actions, and some of them return JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects. The format…
dev@platform.netbeans.org is the new e-mail address for questions/answers relating to development on the NetBeans Platform. That means, dev@openide.netbeans.org is dead. Why? Because NetBeans went through a massive migration process during the past week, during which many obsolete projects have…
Doc Exchange reports on the proof. Men, you need to listen to the Chairman more:
I mentioned a few days ago the start of a plugin for the Vaadin framework in NetBeans IDE. The sources are found here , with the binary here . I've added a few small additions to the sources (i.e., not in the binary yet): First, there are new file templates specifically for Vaadin: For…
I downloaded and unzipped Griffon 0.2 today. Because I set GRIFFON_HOME and added its bin to PATH, I could immediately begin using it in NetBeans IDE (to which end I recompiled the NetBeans Griffon plugin so that it now works in 6.8 Beta). I didn't need to configure anything in NetBeans IDE at…
September 2009: Hermine Deurloo (harmonica) and Han Bennink (drums), with Ernst Glerum (bass) and Maarten van der Grinten (guitar).
Many reasons for the Blues this week. So here are some healing bits of Ronnie Earl, ranging from groove to soul to gut-bucket blues:
Experian and Société Générale both have invested in the NetBeans Platform, by using it as the basis of one or more of their applications. And these two are not exactly small organizations. Experian is a global leader in consumer and business credit reporting and marketing services and a…
Notwithstanding that it is still a secret , we've just added a property that allows you to disable the ssoadm.jsp to harden your system and reduce attack vectors. The property is ssoadm.disabled and can be added with a value of true to the Advanced properties. Log into the OpenSSO console as…
On NetBeans Zone I mentioned the OfficeLAF that developers at Exie in Norway worked on, so that they could end up with a NetBeans Platform application that looks like a member of the Microsoft Office package. Yesterday I received a set of screenshots from the abovementioned developers, showing…
In part 1 , it turned out I was right. Let's see about this one: It comes from here, but that's all that I know about it: http://p.blog.csdn.net/images/p_blog_csdn_net/chenweionline/366238/o_Tangram_build20080222_001.jpg I believe it is a NetBeans Platform application... can anyone tell…
It has been almost two years since the divas were split up -- Gail works on JavaFX and I work on Cloud Services. I have been thinking about starting a new blog ever since, and I finally got around to doing it. From now on, I will be posting at altocirrus.wordpress.com . In addition to talking about…
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Yet another NetBeans Platform application is a commercial application offered by Exie , in Norway. "Exie provides People-Driven Performance Management solutions architected for widespread adoption by companies serving dynamic markets. Exie drives financial outcomes and accountability across the…
Currently, the SAMLv2 Service servlets are always listening . For example, if you don't want to use the Artifact Resolution Service or the Manage Name ID Service it is still on. To switch the services off, you can remove the endpoints from the entity provider's configuration. Log into the…
I don't know what "Fenix" is or what a "Fenix Client" should do, but here's clearly a NetBeans Platform application that is a "Fenix client". Click to enlarge the (very cool!) pics: I found the pics above in Rich Unger's blog, although he doesn't…
If you're using Wicket, you're using its forms, text fields, labels, and so on. So, you call up code completion and you see "java.awt" and "java.text" being offered first, meaning you need to scroll down in each drop-down for the applicable Wicket class: You can save…
O 3 MiSCID GUI is an extensible graphical user interface for visualizing, controling, and interacting with O 3 MiSCID services. Existing extensions range from generic service manipulators to dedicated service viewers and controllers. Here's a screenshot: O 3 MiSCID can be really helpful in the…
All it took was a "fridge-sized" computer with tiny core memory allowing between 16 and 64 kilowords: "The contents of the first emailtransmission have long since been forgotten; in a FAQ onhis website, the sender, Ray Tomlinson (who sent the message betweentwo computers located…
Another Friday, another Friday Blues Blogging. This week, sit back and groove to harp meister William Clarke and band (great swinging blues guitar solo in this tune as well), taken at Larry Blake's . Blakes was the place to go in the 80's for blues. I know, I used to live a block away. I…
URSUS is a NetBeans Platform application for bioclimatic design and energy consumption optimization in town planning. URSUS lets the designer create a residential area composed of a perimeter, plots, streets, and buildings. The streets divide the perimeter surface into different plots where the user…
Kaizen Integrated Tactical Technologies (KITT) is the result of a Saab Systems Grintek (SSG) South Africa (SA) Research and Development (R&D) programme to cater for the requirements of a modern tactical Command, Control, Communication & Information (C3I) environment for the South African…
Lemonade refers to an IETF working group formed to address therequirements of supporting standards-based email in a mobile or otherresource-constrained environment. A "resource-constrained" environmentis one where any or all of the following might be encountered: Low bandwidth, high…
And the YANPA's (Yet Another NetBeans Platform Application ) just keep on coming in! I don't even need to use google to find them anymore, now they're crawling right into my inbox. For example, recently Dave Gilbert from the (awesome) JFreeChart project drew my attention to one seriously…
As Ludo mentions in his announcement about RC 1 for OpenDS 2.2, this release adds external changelog access. Directory applications access the changelog to follow what updates are happening to directory data, and so find the changelog useful when aiming to stay synchronized. Rob Byrne, who has been…
Here is a very odd thing. Look at the explorer view in the left of this pic: And now look at the explorer view in the RIGHT of this pic: The same module installed twice. But... look at "Add System Property" in the left of the top window and then compare that to "Add" (which…
Why get bored with exporting/importing your calendar? From daBrain : Export and Import is an easy way to get your Mac iCal up to date.But doing it manually is boring, therefor I thought it would be nice tohave this scripted ...My result so far now is asmall shell script which export your calendar…