Examples On-Demand Blog

MyEclipse Reports Example project online

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:04:06 -0600

The MyEclipse team just released MyEclipse Reports which is an enterprise ready reporting solution that works for MyEclipse Web Projects. So in order to help everyone get an idea of what MyEclipse Reports can do, we've put a new Reports example project on Examples On-Demand site.

To be able to install the example project below you will need to make sure that you have installed the MyEclipse Reports Add-On onto MyEclipse 6.0.1. If you already have MyEclipse 6.0.1 then from the MyEclipse menu choose "Add features..." and in the dialog that is shown there should be an option for "MyEclipse Reports" feature than you can install.

MERSimpleReportsExample

Soon we will be posting a couple more reporting projects with some much more advanced reports that show more capabilities.

Examples On-Demand in Action!

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:27:31 -0500

If you are checking out the Examples On-Demand website, up at the top, next to the Examples link you should notice the new Live Demo link. This is a new demo, with voice, that only lasts about a minute and a half and shows you how to get started with Examples On-Demand with about 2-clicks. If you are confused what this whole shebazz is all about, give it a click and see how it works!

EOD Firewall Issues

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:53:59 -0500

We know some of our users behind a firewall have been having trouble installing the EOD projects from the MyEclipse Examples repository.

A HOWTO document that shows how you can workaround the problem has been added here.

Hello World!

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:01:57 -0500

Hey guys, my name is Riyad and I'm part of the Examples On-Demand team. In an attempt to get some more information out there to you about how to use Examples On-Demand, what it does, why it's cool and so on, I've been working on some educational material that should be released soon.

Stay tuned!

6 Basic Java Servlet Examples

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:07:54 -0500

You know, when we launched Examples On-Demand, we started out with more detailed, full end-to-end examples, like the Blog application that has 4 CRUD operations using JSF as front end and JPA persistence on the back end running against the MyEclipse embedded Derby database. Obviously this isn't an example for those that are new to java technology.

Then today I ran across this post. This user was trying to learn how to build their first Java Servlet in MyEclipse. Even though we have some good documentation on building web projects, I realized that we don't have a basic Java Servlets example.

So I went and made one real quick using some servlet examples provided by the Tomcat folks. The new project is called JavaServletExamples

MyEclipse 6.0.x user you can access this project through Examples On-Demand browser (MyEclipse > Examples On-Demand menu)

Non-myeclipse users can find it here:

http://www.examplesondemand.com/ Then scroll down a few projects until you see JavaServletExamples

A working example is worth 2 in the tutorial

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:29:47 -0500

Hello everyone,

My name is Greg Amerson and I'm a developer working for Genuitec. My primary job is the Web and Ajax tooling feature lead for MyEclipse. So most of my time is spent improving MyEclipse support for various Web and Ajax related technologies. However, lately we've been thinking of trying to connect with our users and the broader development community at large by starting a small little side project called Examples On-Demand. You can learn more about EoD on the site so I won't go into it too much here. Mainly I just wanted to share with you a few opening thoughts.

What makes me excited about provided example projects to developers is the fact that with MyEclipse any example can take advantage of the MyEclipse Server Sandbox, which means that out of the box you can have a appserver and database pre-configured for any example. So there is no time spent configuring the example to work in your appserver/database environment.

Right now we have 11 EoD projects available. I hope we can double that number in a very short time. You may be thinking that isn't alot but we are just getting started with this service and many of those projects are 3-tier, full end-to-end applications that demonstrate multiple technologies/frameworks, e.g. Ajax, Spring, JPA running on local derby db all in one example.

I'll be writing again soon to talk about some of my favorite EoD projects. Until then, happy coding!

Struts+Hibernate and Webservices example projects available

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:34:46 -0500

Recently, I worked on the Struts Hibernate Blog Example project as well as the TerraServer WS Client Example project. I'd like to share some of my experiences while working on those.
Starting with the Struts+Hibernate example, frankly I hadn't had much of Hibernate exposure so I was a little apprehensive about the entire idea. But one thing that excited me was the oppurtunity to work with our Hibernate Tools, an area within MyEclipse that I had not explored much. In the end it turned out to be a very simple exercise as I had to just start the Hibernate Capabilities wizard and MyEclipse did the majority of the rest. I didn't write any of the Hibernate mappings or configuration files but within minutes the persistence part was done. With reverse engineering all I had to do then was to write a front end to access some of these reverse engineered java objects.

The webservices example was a bit of a cake walk as another member of the team had already done a significant amount of work on that.

Both these projects are available here along with a few others and there are lots to come.

BTW, if you use MyEclipse 6.0.1, you can find them by going to MyEclipse > Examples On-Demand....

Vatsan,
MyEclipse Team

Learning from Examples - The Significance

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:14:37 -0500

Hello,

My name is Vatsan, and I'm a member of the MyEclipse development team.
Most developers are often forced to question the need to learn from examples when there are tools that do almost anything and everything available.

One should not forget the fact that survival in any industry depends on continuous learning on their part as well as on the part of people who learn from them.
For me, this is particularly vexing in the field of Software because innovation happens almost daily. The second part of the problem is also the scope of information needed to get something done. 10 years back, one needed to know one UI programming language, one Data storage technology and one data processing language and you were done.
Today, we need to know multiple APIs, packages, libraries, servers just to get one application running. So, the volume of knowledge required has also increased exponentially, in addition to the duration for which that knowledge holds stable. In such a scenario learning different technologies without much of a configuration and installation in a limited timeframe become vital.

The MyEclipse Examples On-Demand does just that.

Currently I'm working on a couple of example projects and they should be available in the above mentioned link soon.

How much easier can you start with developing? Keep watching this space.

Vatsan,
MyEclipse Team

Welcome!

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:58:38 -0500

Welcome to the Examples On-Demand blog. The goal of this site is to provide developers a rapid examples-based learning experience for familiarization with programming technologies of your interest through observation of example applications that run on the MyEclipse 6 Server Sandbox with zero configuration.

The initial examples development team is made up of MyEclipse IDE develpoment and support team members. They will use this facility to communicate general status information about example applications as well as their personal adventures in developing and supporting example application and the Example On-Demand user community. We would appreciate your assistance in helping to spread the word about Examples On-Demand as well as your personal feedback and suggestions for the future direction for this site. If you are interested in particpating as an example developer please drop us a note at examples at genuitec dot com.

Wayne Parrott
VP, Product Development
Genuitec, LLC