http://attainware.com/blog Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:14:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is another project similar to BeanView. It supports more UI types, but of course uses yet another set of annotations. http://metawidget.sourceforge.net/ I still wish there was a standard for these annotations, but my guess is we won't see those until roughly 2010-2011. http://attainware.com/blog/2008/06/19/metawidget/ A new project called "Wicket Web Beans" provides BeanView-style functionality for Wicket. I love that there are other implementations of this stuff for different user interface platforms (Swing, Echo 2, Tapestry, Wicket) - it would be really nice if the same annotations would work across multiple user interface stacks. Ah, well. ... http://attainware.com/blog/2007/09/12/wicket-implementation-of-beanview-style-functionality/ The Tapestry 5 tutorial has an example of BeanView-style form generation - check it out! http://attainware.com/blog/2007/07/05/tapestry-implementation-of-beanview-style-functionality/ The version of Beanview in CVS has been converted from Apache Commons Validation to the new Hibernate Validation annotations system. This means that you can use a single set of validation annotations for both persistence and for BeanView-generated user interfaces. Hibernate Validation includes support for several languages besides English, including ... http://attainware.com/blog/2007/04/01/beanview-hibernate-validator-languages/ BeanView 1.1.2 has been posted. This release fixes a minor bug (a NPE has been replaced with a slightly more informative exception), updated documentation, and updated demonstrations (including a prototype Naked Objects example). More information (including updated screenshots and download information) can be found at BeanView.com. http://attainware.com/blog/2006/10/15/beanview-112-posted/ If you like the idea[s] behind BeanView, but instead of Echo 2 or Swing you use Tapestry as your preferred web framework, you should check out BeanForm. Thanks to Daniel G (creator of BeanForm) for the tip! http://attainware.com/blog/2006/10/15/beanform-beanview-like-stuff-for-tapestry/ Q: I love the concept of your BeanView, but I just can't get it to work at all with Collections. Can you tell me if I'm doing something completely wrong. If I change the nicknames property to String[] instead of Collection, everything works. But as Collection, I ... http://attainware.com/blog/2006/10/15/using-collections/ BeanView CVS has moved to java.net. A clean checkin of BeanView 1.1 can be found at: https://beanview.dev.java.net/ Hopefully, this will fix the various CVS outages, dropped connections, "broken pipes", and other issues. http://attainware.com/blog/2006/09/18/beanview-moving-to-javanet/ BeanView 1.1 is available for download now at: http://www.attainware.com/beanview/BeanView_1.1.zip Most notably, all of the Ant scripts have been tossed out and the whole package redone with Maven 2. In addition, the BeanView-specific BeanUtils has been removed and BeanView now relies on the standard BeanUtils. http://attainware.com/blog/2006/09/17/beanview-11-released/ Pavel K emailed me with some questions and suggestions regarding BeanView, and I thought it might be interesting to summarize some of the questions and open it up to the community. Feel free to make comments if you have any thoughts or questions. Q: What about locale support for labels? ... http://attainware.com/blog/2006/08/18/future-beanview-design-questions/