Mirage and Apache Click Example

I started to make a sample application to use Mirage with Apache Click.

This sample application has not been completed yet. However you can checkout source code from the following URL using Subversion.

• http://svn.sourceforge.jp/svnroot/amateras/mirage/trunk/mirage-click-example/

You can build a war file using Maven. Please execute following commands in command prompt.

$ svn co http://svn.sourceforge.jp/svnroot/amateras/mirage/trunk/mirage-click-example/
$ cd mirage-click-example
$ mvn package

Then you can find mirage-click-example.war in the /target directory.

Put it into the application server such as Tomcat and access http://localhost:8080/mirage-click-example/ using your browser.

Mirage 1.0.1 Released!

Mirage is a simple SQL centric database access library. Today, I've just released Mirage 1.0.1. It's already available.

See the following URL to know about Mirage:

• http://amateras.sourceforge.jp/site/mirage/welcome.html

Here is the list of new features in this release:

• Use java.util.logging instead of slf4j / logback to remove them from dependency.
• Simple example and documentation for Google Guice integration.
• It's possible to specify a transient property by transient modifier instead of @Transient annotation.
• Add new method SqlManager#findEntity(Class clazz, Object... id)
• Add new method SqlManager#getCount(String sqlPath[, Object param])
• ValueType interface to add custome value type support
• BLOB support

Mirage is still not enough to use in complex systems. So we would improve it as much as possible soon.

Mirage: Simple SQL Centric DB Access Library

Today, I released Mirage ver 1.0.0.

Mirage is a simple SQL centric database access library. It has a following two features:

• 2WaySQL
  The main feature of Mirage is 2WaySQL. This makes plain old SQL template, and it is executable using any SQL client tools because parameters and conditions are written as SQL comment.
• SQL less Update
  Generally, update processing are simpler than search processing. However, especially, large INSERT SQL brings us the considerable pain. In the Mirage, you can insert / update / delete records using entity class (without SQL).

The main feature of Mirage is 2WaySQL. This makes plain old SQL template. See the following example:

SELECT * FROM BOOK
/*BEGIN*/
  WHERE
  /*IF author != null */
        AUTHOR = /*author*/'Naoki Takezoe'
  /*END*/
  /*IF minPrice != null */
    AND PRICE >= /*minPrice*/20
  /*END*/
  /*IF maxPrice != null */
    AND PRICE <= /*maxPrice*/100
  /*END*/
/*END*/
ORDER BY BOOK_ID ASC

Mirage processes this SQL template and executes it using PreparedStatement at runtime. And this SQL template is exacutable even it is on SQL client tools such as SQL*Plus(Oracle) or psql(PostgreSQL). So it makes easy to test SQL.

See details about Mirage at our web site. I would also talk about Mirage in this blog.

Java Standard EL Functions 1.1.0 is available!

We released Java Standard EL Functions (JSEL) ver 1.1.0.

JSEL provides standard JSP-EL functions for web application development such as escaping HTML tags, URL encoding and formatting Date or Number. You can use it with many web frameworks which use JSP as view technologies.

Here is the example to JSEL usage:

<%@ taglib uri="http://amateras.sf.jp/functions" prefix="f" %>
...
<%-- Escape HTML tags --%>
${f:h(value)}
<%-- URL encode --%>
${f:u(value)}

JSEL provides many usable EL functions. Please check our web site to know details about JSEL.

ClickIDE 2.1.0.0 Released

ClickIDE 2.1.0.0 is now available!

• https://blogs.apache.org/click/entry/clickide_2_1_0_0
• http://click-framework.blogspot.com/2010/02/clickide-2100-released-support-apache.html

This version is the first release of ClickIDE from Apache Software Foundation and it supports Eclipse 3.5 and Apache Click 2.1.0.

You can download it from the following link:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/click/clickide/2.1.0.0/clickide-2.1.0.0.zip

Enjoy Click!

Doloto: JavaScript optimization tool

Doloto is an AJAX application optimization tool provided at Microsoft DevLabs.

It works as an local proxy server, and it profiles JavaScript in Ajax applications. After profiling, Doloto groups JavaScripy functions as clusters based on profiled data. And rewrite original JavaScript code to load functions on demand using XMLHttpRequest.

Doloto is very simple and easy to use. It makes lazy loading of JavaScript with no changes of your applications.

Vilike: Open Source vi Plug-in for Eclipse

viPlugin for Eclipse is a major plug-in that provides vi like key binding for Eclipse. However it's not open source. We have to buy license to use it (15 Euro).

Today, I found an open source vi plug-in named Vilike. I tested this plug-in and felt it good.

You can get it from the download page.

1. Download jp.gr.java_conf.mitonan.vilike_0.1.0.beta1.jar and put it into ECLIPSE_HOME/dropins.
2. Restart Eclipse and choose ViLike Key Binding Scheme ad the key binding schema in the Eclipse preference dialog ([General] - [Keys]).

Try Vilike plug-in if you want to bring Eclispe key binding close to the vi editor!