[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - Week 3.1 (broken examples, or has the language changed?!)

2009-09-13 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
Thanks Josh, Well that explains it then ;-) I followed a link from the JavaPassion tutorial and then somewhere off there I found I Java FX for Java programmers tutorial - it was in there, admittedly dated 2007. That link you sent I had found before, but it's awkward because I have no internet ac

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

2009-09-08 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
These were great posts - thanks guys. It's interesting that you mention databases in relation to nulls, because this is where I've historically had to deal with null Booleans and suchlike. Usually it's as you describe - the entries are nullable and therefore I need to do something different in t

[The Java Posse] Re: Package by feature or layer?

2009-08-10 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
I like the idea of organizing the packages by feature, but I wonder where you put the common code, or code that is used in a couple of places? For example, the domain objects might not fit exclsuvely in one feature - like a user DAO or DTO that might be used in almost all the features? I guess I

[The Java Posse] Re: Java FX Studio beta available?

2009-06-18 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
So is the intention to install that for all the graphic manipulations and then export as necessary, then switch to Netbeans with the JavaFX plugin to do the coding? Will the Java FX Studio be instead of photoshop, or complementary? I'm not sure I understand what I would need to develop in JavaFX

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Concurrent Animated

2009-06-07 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
I was very impressed with the visualisations - it helped me understand very quickly the new threading library. As I went through all of them I made some notes and added the details to your forum on sourceforge. Great work! Thanks. Rob. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

[The Java Posse] Re: UML using Netbeans - am I being stoopid? ;-)

2009-05-01 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
Hi Mario, Many thanks for a great first-time post, and a great one at that. I have actually been on a course, probably about 8 years ago for UML OOA/ D at Rational, but, like most courses, I haven't used it since. Your reply therefore has been a great, compressed version of a rather dull course

[The Java Posse] Re: Requirements capture / design software?

2009-04-20 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
mix. Rob. On Apr 20, 12:18 pm, Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG wrote: > I've always found it to be sluggish and error prone, or it tries to be > too clever.  But then I'm sure I used to have it in a round-trip mode, > so changing my code would update the UML diagrams and vice-ver

[The Java Posse] Re: Requirements capture / design software?

2009-04-20 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
I've always found it to be sluggish and error prone, or it tries to be too clever. But then I'm sure I used to have it in a round-trip mode, so changing my code would update the UML diagrams and vice-versa, but in 6.x I can't seem to do that, so either I am miss-remembering what I used to do, or

[The Java Posse] Re: User interface design documentation

2009-04-19 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
I've used Visio in the past, which in the newer version of Visio is pretty good, although they produce a very distinctive 'windows' look and feel. I tried 'Balsamiq mockups' out of curiosity, and, well, I'm very impressed. The amount of times I have resorted to pencil + paper and then have to ru

[The Java Posse] Re: Can you think of a reason to use EJB?

2009-04-02 Thread Rob Wilson - BabyDuke JUG
An interesting thread! I've used Spring and like the sections I've used (MVC, IOC), but almost picked up my EJB 3 book to see what I'm missing - but couldn't help but think it seemed bloated and complex in comparison... but then sometimes I feel Spring is too heavy for the simple apps - i.e. somet