JMatter Blog

New release 20090405

Eitan Suez — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:41:00 -0500

Just a quick announcement that I've posted a new release. This is mostly a bugfix release, incorporating fixes to various issues reported on the mailing list, merging patches and features and other enhancements into the framework.

Some notable changes: the Substance (5.1) look and feel is now default. This release also contains some deployment enhancements such as ability to deploy as applet, using jnlp downloadservlet, and option to produce a pack200-enabled distribution.

For a full list of changes, see changes.

Thanks, / Eitan

New JMatter Release: 2008-10-02

Eitan Suez — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:03:00 -0500

New JMatter Release (Oct 2 2008) is now available.

Highlights of this release:

addressed memory leaks. app memory consumption should no longer grow with prolonged activity.
started working on AppBuilder: a jmatter application for constructing / generating jmatter applications
supporting list reordering in the ui for relationallists marked @IdxFld(ordered=true)
added an annotation attribute on relational lists @IdxFld(ownsChildren=true) which treats the relation as cascade=delete- orphan and disabled list item association from ui widget
bug fixes

Enjoy. / Eitan

@ javazone

Eitan Suez — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:23:00 -0500

oslo is a great city. and javazone is a great conference. and i have never seen a jug that compares to the javabin. the javabin, oslo's jug, is responsible for creating javazone.

with respect to jmatter and the talk that i presented yesterday, i must be honest that i was quite disappointed. actually that's an understatement. attendance was quite low, perhaps 30 people. in comparison i attended many less-than-average presentations that were "packed to the gills." anyhow, for me, it's not worth a trip halfway across the world. i feel that the jmatter message is falling on deaf ears.

i am coming to the conclusion that many developers are very conservative. they don't think for themselves. instead, they look around and ask themselves: "how can i avoid getting into trouble? what's everyone else doing? ok, follow the herd." at the talk just prior to mine, titled something along the lines of "a comparison of ioc frameworks: spring, tapestry ioc, google guice, etc.." they took a poll: everyone was using spring. no one was using anything else.

at javazone, one of the tag lines, or motto, is: "ignorance hurts" (see link). they've got a cartoon of three guys in space suits on planet x, and one of them removes his helmet, and shortly afterwards his head explodes. ignorance hurts.

the talk i've enjoyed listening to the most so far was gilad bracha's presentation on a new language he's working on named "newspeak." the jabs and jokes he made about other languages including java were truly entertaining.

over and out.

New Release 2008-Sep-02

Eitan Suez — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:18:00 -0500

Just posted a new release.

Enjoy!

/ eitan

Ridiculous..

Eitan Suez — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:48:00 -0500

Waiting for JSplitPane support for component orientation? Don't hold your breath!

New release 2008-Aug-11

Eitan Suez — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:08:00 -0500

Just posted a new release.

Enjoy!

/ eitan

New release out (June 27 2008)

Eitan Suez — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:50:00 -0500

Just posted a new release. See downloads. Enjoy!

/ eitan

2008-02-11: Patch release is out

Eitan Suez — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:47:00 -0600

A patch release of JMatter is out today, which fixes these minor issues discovered after last week's release:

a rendering issue with the login panel
issue with persisting BigDecimalEO's
a bug in minimizing a maximized internal frame (reported by alexcrown (thx))
a classloader issue that manifested itself with a webstart-deployed app

Thanks, / Eitan

A belated congratulations to NakedObjects on v3.0!

Eitan Suez — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:18:00 -0600

This past October, the Naked Objects group announced version 3.0 of their framework. I know that this version was in the works for some time. Like previous versions, this one keeps pushing the envelope, now offering an HTML-based interface to a nakedobjects system, among several other big features.

The Fall of 2007 was a busy time for me. When the news came out, I did not have or take the time to acknowledge this milestone and participate in the discussions.

I would like to acknowledge this achievement and albeit belatedly, congratulate Richard Pawson, Robert Matthews, and all involved in making this release a reality: congrats!

Back on track..

Eitan Suez — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:19:00 -0600

The JMatter project was fairly dormant during the Fall of 2007. But no longer.

Let's begin with a formal announcement of a new release of JMatter (4 Feb 08). The release notes detail some of the new features.

Let us know what you think.

Watch for new developments in 2008.