Monthly Archives: May 2008

Showcase: Google Analytics AIR beta 3 (for AIR 1.0)

Leave a comment

Adobe Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 certainly have generated quite a buzz in the Java world in the last few months. Not in the least by the very nice Parleys.com site which is hosting all the Javapolis talks and videos.

Adobe AIR is a technology which lets you download and run webapps seamlessly on your desktop. (similar to Google Gears).

Another well known Google app, Google Analytics has now been ported to AIR by Nicolas Lierman. Analytics features all sorts of interesting statistics about your site visitors, allowing you to make informed choices on how to improve your site (eg. which pages are popular, which are not, which pages have high exit points, …)

The AIR version (with really nice Flex chart animations), can be download at AboutNico

How to redirect to an external link with Spring Webflow?

3 Comments

Below you can find an easy way to redirect to an external site via a Spring Webflow view state. What happens here is the following:

  1. a JSF command link backing bean action method returns the String link1
  2. Spring Webflow will redirect you to the viewstate OpenLink1
  3. The OpenLink1 view-state uses the externalRedirect functionality with a backingbean/dataholder stored link value

<view-state id=”myViewState” view=”/viewstates/mypage.jspx”>
<transition to=”OpenLink1″ on=”link1″/>
</view-state>

<view-state id=”OpenLink1″ view=”externalRedirect:${conversationScope.dataHolder.link1}”/>

Javapolis becomes Javoxx

Leave a comment

A new name, a new logo but the same concept: Javapolis became Javoxx this week as javoxx.com was launched.

We still have to wait a bit about the exact reasoning behind the name switch, but the goal of the conference is clear: be the java community conference. (as it’s organized by the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG).

Javoxx will take place from December 8th till 12th in Antwerp, Belgium.