Hi Andrew, Many thanks for your quick reply, and in particular for your information with the link.? It's really frustrating working in isolation here in France, without any person able to help me with my various questions, so I've had to use books and the Internet to get all my information.? Basically I started with Glassfish and server-side programming completely from scratch when I started here in October.? However, the positive side of my situation is that nobody here knows how I'm writing the code or understands what I'm doing, they only see the end result, so if I goof up, which I've done often, they don't see my silly mistakes, and I just say there is a bug which I'm trying to fix!
I first worked on this project here a year ago, but they were unable to provide a computer to host the website, due to delays in getting the required funds, and I didn't have a laptop with Linux on it.? Moreover there was not much in the way of tools,?so when I first started I didn't know what server technology to use, so I developed all the client-side code in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by hand using Notepad and a couple of browsers.? When I got Glassfish running in the fall, I already had my forms wired up using JavaScript and DOM, and rather than rewriting the client-side code from scratch, I modified the JavaScript to that I could concatenate the values from the various input fields on a page, then used the DOM to write to a separate JSF form I have at the bottom of a page.??No doubt there is a much better way of doing this, but I wanted to take advantage of what I had already coded and debugged. I have a bean that picks up the concatenated input, parses it, and sends the output to a directory which is periodically scanned by a Linux script, which then calls some FORTRAN code written by one of the people here.? Originally I wanted a bean to invoke C via the JNI, from which FORTRAN can be called, or invoke a Linux script from Java, and I found out how to do?both of these?and got some code to work.? However, the powers that be and their mentality on security meant neither of these methods were acceptable. On a completely different subject, I spent a couple of weeks last month learning some Flash, and put together my first attempt at http://csharp.com/mirrors.html , the idea coming from a T-shirt design at Steward Observatory. Yes, many thanks, I also certainly look forward to meeting you in person at the next JUG meeting after I get back to Tucson. Regards, Christopher -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: jug-discussion@tucson-jug.org; Christopher Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 5:25 pm Subject: Re: [jug-discussion] Server now running Hi Christopher, Congratulations on getting your application up. I look forward to looking it over. For JSF file upload, the Apache Myfaces project provides several sets of components. In particular, I find the Tomahawk components invaluable for JSF development. The Tomahawk components also conveniently include a file upload component. See?http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk/fileUpload.html for details. In way of demonstration, in my application I have: <t:inputFileUpload value="#{productInfoView.customImageFile1}" storage="file"/> In my backing bean, this maps to?private UploadedFile customImageFile1; UploadedFile is an abstract type provided by Tomahawk that provides storage for all components of an uploaded file. That should get you started. I look forward to meeting you in person at the Tucson JUG. Regards, Andrew ? On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Christopher Sharp wrote: Hi Andrew, I've completed most of my work here and plan to return to Tucson on March 18.? The server is now up and running at http://phoenix.ens-lyon.fr/simulator/ , but some debugging is still required.? It's been really difficult, as I've been effectively working on my own for the last few months.? I don't think anybody in the astronomy department here knows Java, and I don't know anybody in Lyon who knows Java Server Faces, although there must be some, so for the last few months I've had to learn the hard way from books and Google on my own. One last hurdle is to figure out how to program Glassfish to enable one to incorporate file uploads in a web page.? Chapter 13 of Core JavaServer Faces by Geary and Horstmann goes into some detail on this, but in fact too much detail, and I would most appreciate some advice on code that is as simple as possible to perform this task. There is a chance I may be back in France later in the spring or the summer to continue some of my work here for a few more months, but in the mean time I'm looking into possible jobs in Arizona and New Mexico.? What I'm also interested in doing after I get back to Tucson is to get more familiar with a number of aspects of JSF and certainly plan to attend further JUG meetings after I get back. Regards, Christopher Supercharge your AIM. Get the AIM toolbar for your browser. --? Andrew Barton? eBlox, Inc.? ? 512.867.1001 x101 Check out the new Free Distributor Resource Center (including an online directory of more than 1200? Suppliers)! http://www.distributorresourcecenter.com =
