Category Archives: General

Creator Applications and setup directory:-(

By | January 30, 2006

Just a word of caution: Don’t create a directory called “setup”  in the project  root.   That is a reserved directory name for NetBeans. Creator itself inherited that NB hehavior partially. So if you do create such a directory, you might end up with very strange errors when you try to build or deploy your project.… Read More »

I found Dru Devore's Blog

By | January 27, 2006

Maybe it’s widely known. But I did just find it. Check it out at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ddevore/.  There are good Creator related posts on it. Thanks Dru;-) — Marco

Creator 2 Applications and Oracle OC4J – The conclusion

By | January 27, 2006

I finally found the problem. I believe the Oracle HTTP Server/OC4J combination sends a bad HTTP Content-Location Header: marco@linux:~> wget -S http://sles.sonic.net:7777/oratest –22:41:57– http://sles.sonic.net:7777/oratest => `oratest’ Resolving sles.sonic.net… 192.168.1.107 Connecting to sles.sonic.net|192.168.1.107|:7777… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:42:03 GMT Server: Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.0.2 Oracle-HTTP-Server Cache-Control: private Location:… Read More »

Creator 2 Applications and Oracle OC4J – A Bit Closer

By | January 27, 2006

An update to my last posting – I found one problem;-) Apparently OC4J does employ some kind of *.TLD caching by default and that does not work with our applications which bring their taglibs with them. The error message did not help much in this case:-( The solution: Switch of the jsp-cache-tlds either globally or… Read More »

Creator 2 and Oracles OC4J:-(

By | January 25, 2006

I wanted to try some simple Creator generated applications with Oracles Application Server (OC4J) 10g. But so far, it’s a No-Go:-( I exported the application as a J2EE 1.3 compliant war file and I could deploy it. So far, everything seemed to be happy.  But when I tried to view the start page, I end… Read More »

We finally made it;-)

By | January 25, 2006

It took a long time but Sun Java Studio Creator 2 was released today;-) I hope you can enjoy it;-) See all the new and exciting features at Creators official web site and get it for free. (I have no idea why they choose me in the picture there) I will now probably be busy answering… Read More »

Creator (Java SE) and Asian Fonts

By | December 9, 2005

Maybe the following is common knowledge in the areas where that problem would be more serious. Sorry, I can’t read or understand any of the Asian languages, so I wasn’t able to find much on the subject. I was trying to look at a localization problem in Creator on my SuSE Linux box. So I… Read More »

Creator on Ubuntu

By | November 29, 2005

Ok, that’s only a quick link to David’s writeup on how he got the application server for Creator to install on Ubuntu.  That’s the only part of a Creator install, which might have special requirements. Something very similar will probably be relevant to all Debian based Linux distributions. I hope this helps some people. Have… Read More »

Java Studio Creator and Resin

By | November 24, 2005

That question came up, so I tried it.  Creator applications work mostly with Resin 3.0.15.  I filed one problem for Resin (RSN-512).  But that is easily worked around with a little index.jsp file in the applications root diretory.  That index.jsp should just do the forward to the real JSF start page. So you have two… Read More »

My Adventure in Component Land

By | November 24, 2005

I found a post on the Creator forum asking how to integrate a embedded Windows Media Player into a Creator project. So I thought, that would be a good time to try and write some custom components. You could add some elements as static HTML but then the JSF framework would not know anything about… Read More »