We wrote a lot of useful articles about JVx in the past weeks. You can use them as reference:
Here's the search result and the direct links to the articles:
Technologies and Factories
Resource and UIResource
Launchers and Applications
Application Basics
Custom Components
Events
DataBooks
The FormLayout
CellEditors
And the link to our JVx documentation.
Information | rjahn | 11/10/2017 | 
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Long awaited, now it's here 
The support for ANT and JRE6 with Eclipse Oxygen.1 (September 2017).
This is a follow-up post for: Eclipse NEON with ANT and JRE6
The plugin was created for:
Don't forget the -clean start (read the original article for more details)!
Download the plugin from here. It works for us - no warranty!
For more details about the installation, read this article.
Development | rjahn | 08/10/2017 | Comments (20)
What a great Monday
All our Vaadin 7 projects were migrated to Vaadin 8.1 successfully. First snapshots are available and we also have nightly builds for you.
We use the v7 compat layer in our first migration phase because we want a smooth and not an all at-the-same-time migration. Everything works so far and we started the next phase of our migration plan: Cleanup.
We'll replace the v7 compat layer and use v8 features wherever it makes sense and is possible. This will take some time because we expect some hidden problems, but we'll solve the little problems for you
News | rjahn | 02/10/2017 | Comments (0)
With new MacOS versions, the good old Aqua LaF has some problems.
If you create a simple MDI application with JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame, following problem will occur:
Default JInternalFrame
The code for our problem:
import javax.swing.JDesktopPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JInternalFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import javax.swing.border.Border;
import javax.swing.border.CompoundBorder;
import javax.swing.plaf.UIResource;
public class TestJVxTabbedPane
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
new TestJVxTabbedPane();
}
public TestJVxTabbedPane()
{
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JDesktopPane dpan = new JDesktopPane();
dpan.setBackground(Color.white);
JInternalFrame fr = new JInternalFrame();
fr.setTitle("Super Frame");
fr.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 200));
fr.pack();
fr.setResizable(true);
fr.setMaximizable(true);
fr.setIconifiable(true);
fr.setClosable(true);
fr.setVisible(true);
dpan.add(fr);
frame.getContentPane().add(dpan, BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setSize(500, 400);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
(nothing special, a simple JInternalFrame, JDesktopPane combination)
We don't like bad looking UIs, so we fixed the problem in JVx:
JInternalFrame without border problem
The fix will work without JVx as well. We made tests with different MacOS versions and our solution worked in all our tests.
Development | rjahn | 28/09/2017 | Comments (2)
We're happy to announce VisionX 2.4 Update Release 2. It's another milestone for us.
The new version is a bugfix release with some important features for all our customers. The top bug was a missing license check for our HTML5 implementation. With older versions it was possible to use our HTML5 application without valid license. This wasn't a hidden feature, it was a real bug. The new version has a clean license check and some of you will need a new license. This is no problem, simply contact us.
What's new?
Press F12 to maximize VisionX without frame border.
It supports "application per session", custom UI factory, custom Application setups, main, config and externalCss URL parameter.
It will be possible to use VisionX on server-side as backend for remote application development.
It's now possible to Copy/Paste into field with DnD support.
VisionX now supports automatic UI tests with an optional AddOn. The mechanism isn't limited to our AddOn. It's also possible to create custom Modules/AddOns.
VisionX has built-in support for Tibero Database (tested with version 6).
VisionX got a Preloader. This allows custom libraries without manually changing the classpath. The old classpath mechanism is still available, but we use the Preloader by default.
It's now possible to add custom editors in the action editor via action.xml and/or a custom module.
It's now possible to use panels with GridLayout, if set in Source Code.
It's now possible to create custom vaadin widgetsets, e.g. add an AddOn from the Vaadin Directory. It's super easy to create a custom theme and setting your custom css attributes.
We reduced the fetch calls during screen creation. This will improve performance with big tables and complex views.
The VaadinAddon can be used to create a custom widgetset or theme. The AppTeste is an automatic UI test tool. There is a new demo application for testing Validators. The new reporting demo application will show all features of our reporting engine.
It's now possible to configure the EPlug communication ports via system properties.
Our signing mechanism now supports TSA Urls, Proxies, signing algorithms and much more.
Newly created applications will automatically merge service modules. This is an important bugfix for e.g. the profiles module.
The new version is available in your download area or as Trial version.
We have awesome news for you. We'll release the 2nd update of VisionX 2.4 by the end of this week!
The update will come with some new features and many bugfixes. The most important feature is that all open source libraries were updated. You'll have access to new APIs and new feautres of all libraries. VisionX itself got some bugfixes regarding the visual designer. A great new feature is the support for AddOns with access to VisionX. It'll be possible to customize VisionX for your needs.
We also have some new AddOns and Demo Applications e.g. the VaadinAddOn which enables you to create your own vaadin widgetset/theme in seconds.
The 2.4 release of VisionX will be the last version with Vaadin 7 because we already work with Vaadin 8.1 in our development branches.
We'll also change the version number of VisionX with our next release. Instead of 2.5, it'll be 5.0.
Why?
Because VisionX is very mature and the version number 2 doesn't fit. The next release will be a major change because VisionX will contain Vaadin 8.1 and this library requires Java 8, so also our VisionX projects will require Java 8. This isn't a big change, because VisionX itself comes with Java 8. The difference is the project configuration for your IDE.
All planned changes shouldn't be a problem for you, because Java 9 is out and Java 8 is the Java version you should use for your projects. The Java version won't make any difference for our Oracle Forms users because our JVx library will be built with Java 6 - no changes for you.
News | rjahn | 26/09/2017 | Comments (0)
This article is an upgraded version of Joomla/RSForms post request to Java Servlet.
The use case is the same: Calling a Java Servlet, after submitting a form. The servlet should read the form data and start e.g. the creation of a license file.
The form plugin Contact Form 7 is very popular for Wordpress. It's powerful and easy to use.
But sadly, it doesn't support custom php scripts, only custom Javascript calls. So it's possible to add custom javascript calls with predefined hooks. Not exactly what we want because Javascript functions run on client side and not in the same context as the php backend.
It wasn't possible to implement missing features without coding php, but it was not tricky.
Modified wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/settings.php
self::load_module( 'sibvisions' );
}
Added load_module('sibvisions');
Created wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/modules/sibvisions.php
add_action('wpcf7_submit', 'wpcf7_sibvisions_submit', 10, 2);
function wpcf7_sibvisions_submit($contactform, $result)
{
if ($contactform->in_demo_mode() || $contactform->is_true('do_not_store'))
{
return;
}
$servletURL = $contactform->additional_setting('sib_servletURL');
if (empty($servletURL[0]))
{
error_log('Servlet URL is not set in form!');
return;
}
$cases = (array)apply_filters('wpcf7_sibvisions_submit_if',
array('spam', 'mail_sent', 'mail_failed'));
if (empty($result['status']) || ! in_array($result['status'], $cases ))
{
return;
}
$submission = WPCF7_Submission::get_instance();
if (!$submission || ! $posted_data = $submission->get_posted_data())
{
return;
}
if (isset($posted_data['g-recaptcha-response']))
{
if (empty($posted_data['g-recaptcha-response']))
{
return;
}
}
$fields_senseless = $contactform->scan_form_tags(
array('feature' => 'do-not-store'));
$exclude_names = array();
foreach ( $fields_senseless as $tag )
{
$exclude_names[] = $tag['name'];
}
$exclude_names[] = 'g-recaptcha-response';
foreach ($posted_data as $key => $value)
{
if ('_' == substr($key, 0, 1) || in_array($key, $exclude_names))
{
unset($posted_data[$key]);
}
}
$url = str_replace('"', "", $servletURL[0]);
$url = str_replace("'", "", $url);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
$data = array();
foreach ($posted_data as $post => $value)
{
if (is_array($value))
{
foreach ($value as $post2 => $value2)
{
$data[] = $post.'[]='.urlencode($value2);
}
}
else
{
$data[] = $post.'='.urlencode($value);
}
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, implode('&', $data));
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch))
{
wp_mail('noreply@sibvisions.com', 'Service error',
'Call to service ('.$url.') failed with error ('.curl_error($ch).')');
}
else
{
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE)
if ($http_code != 200)
{
wp_mail('noreply@sibvisions.com', 'Service error',
'Call to service ('.$url.') failed with error ('.$data.')');
}
}
curl_close($ch);
}
The script is based on module flamingo.php because it had all useful validations.
Be careful, because the script will be applied to all your forms. It's form independent.
The only thing you'll need is am additional setting (for your form):
This setting configures the servlet to use for the form. If you don't configure a servlet, the module will do nothing!
The new module will forward all form data to the servlet. The servlet is the same as in our original article - no changes needed.
Development | rjahn | 07/09/2017 | Comments (0)
Our JVx Vaadin UI is based on vaadin 7.7.9 right now. It works great but vaadin moves forward in big steps. The latest 8.1 release contains many new features and bugfixes. Not all fixes were backported to vaadin 7. This is bad but clear for us.
So we should switch to vaadin 8.1?
This isn't an easy task because vaadin 8 has some new APIs and vaadin moved some parts like FontAwesome to new AddOns. The ContextMenu AddOn was compatible up to vaadin 7, but 8 needs the new official ContextMenu AddOn. The data bindings will work with 8 but needs a compatibility layer.
But anyway, we decided to start the migration and will do everything step-by-step. The first task will do the update of all our vaadin projects to Java 8 and vaadin 8.1. The next step will do the integration of v7 compatibility layer and the following tasks will fix all other problems like ContextMenu, FontAwesome, changed APIs. It's a bigger project and we hopefully will be finished by the end of October.
This blog post is a notice for our vaadin UI users!
We'll keep you up to date
News | rjahn | 28/08/2017 | Comments (0)
If you have a JVx application and want to use it without the frame border, it's not supported out-of-the-box. Sometimes it's very useful to have a full-screen application or to grab a screenshot without frame.
We now support this feature for Swing based applications but not in the official UI API. Here's a code snippet:
The trick with FULLSCREEN is necessary because the event fires sometimes more than once.
Simply press F12 key to toggle between Fullscreen/Frame mode.
Development | rjahn | | Comments (0)
We have a new AddOn for all VisionX users. It's the Vaadin AddOn.
The new AddOn makes it possible to integrate Vaadin AddOns from the official Vaadin AddOn Directory. It makes the integration super simple because we solved the technical problems. The AddOn does all the hard work for you and after two button clicks, everything is done.
With our new AddOn, we introduced more new VisionX features. In the next update release, it will be possible to create AddOns which have access to VisionX itself. Use the internal DataBooks or the Designer, the WizardManager and all other APIs. It'll be possible to create your own VisionX based on VisionX!
Also new is the automatic restart feature. It's possible to restart VisionX after installing an AddOn or Module with a simple button click. This feature is the base for automatic VisionX updates. Currently, we don't update VisionX automatically, but we think it will be nice for one of the next versions.
Get an impression
Vaadin AddOn for VisionX
The AddOn is commercial and not included in VisionX. Contact our sales team to get more information!
News, Tools | rjahn | 21/08/2017 | Comments (0)
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