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Simon is a hands-on software architect and a senior consultant at C5 Alliance in Jersey. Over the past 12 years, he’s been involved in projects ranging from rich desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; predominantly within the finance industry. He's also undertaken consulting and training roles with a broader focus on people, process and technology.

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Project Rave

During the keynote we saw a demo of Sun's new Project Rave. It's basically an IDE with which to build web applications based around the new JavaServer Faces API and components. I'm not sure whether it can be used to build other stuff but we did see them build a webapp. In fact we saw them build it twice because the Tomcat server threw out a 404 the first time! Poor guy doing the demo.

Anyway, if you've done any programming with a 4GL environment like PowerBuilder, VisualBasic, etc then this is pretty much the same, albeit for the web. You can drag and drop components on to the canvas (the web page) and hook them up with event listeners, datasources and web services. All in all a very quick way to build webapps and certainly aimed at the corporate developer market that Sun is trying to bring over to the Java world in an effort to significantly increase the developer community. Good demo, nice tool. We also saw Oracle's JDeveloper tool do something very similar yesterday so it seems as if Sun aren't the only company backing the whole quick webapp assembly game.

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Posted by Simon Brown on 11 June 2003 19:56:44 BST #

Re: Project Rave

Comment from Lance on 12 June 2003 03:16:09 BST #

Sounds like WebOjects visual tool (I forget the name of it).

Re: Project Rave

Comment from dsuspense on 12 June 2003 15:35:45 BST #

Is called Raven, or Rave, I was under the impression it is called Rave. I looked at the webcast and like the fact that (due to the SQL server crash), he was able to rebuild the web app literally in about 5 mins, something hard to do now with most web app tools. This is an ASP.NET Web Matrix type dev too l for us Java web developers.

Re: Project Rave

Comment from Simon Brown on 12 June 2003 16:03:44 BST #

Sorry, yes, it's called Rave. :-)

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