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Uwyn bvba/sprl — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:34:00 +0100

Geert Bevin, Uwyn's founder and official Java Champion, has been interviewed by the Sun Developer Network (SDN) about his work with JavaScript.

The article talks about OpenLaszlo, Uwyn's preferred Rich Internet Applications platform, and how we balance our work between front-end and back-end development. Our free public to-do list tracker, Bla-bla List got featured as an example.

The interview continues with more information about the upcoming 4.0 version of OpenLaszlo and what its plans are for the mobile and Ajax space.

Finally, it outlines our plans for future RIFE development and even shows a glimpse of the hidden musician face of Geert.

Uwyn delivers OpenLaszlo solution for major online US retailer

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:56:00 +0100

Uwyn has a vast experience with Rich Internet Applications using OpenLaszlo and their integration into complex multi-tier server-side back-ends. Our knowledge enabled us to deliver a top to bottom solution for one of the largest online US retailers, allowing them to create innovative rich media customer interactions from within their familiar content creation tools. This provides exciting new features for tenths of million customers, making their shopping experience more pleasant and engaging while still presenting the information in a clean and elegant way.

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The details of this solution are confidential. However, feel free to contact us to find out more. We can arrange for a private demonstration and an architectural overview.

Facebook uses Uwyn's RIFE to demo development platform

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:16:00 +0200

Facebook launched its development platform yesterday and includes Facebank as a demo of what is possible.

According to Wikipedia, Facebook is a social networking service that is used by 85% of all college students in the United States. It is the 7th largest site in the US and even tops flickr in terms of photo uploads. Rolling Stone even calls Facebook the hottest site on the web.

FaceBank is a virtual tracker of how much money you and your friends owe each other. Its purpose is explained in their 'about page' with a short example of how it works.

More interestingly though, the technical details clearly endorses RIFE as being an excellent framework. They even include the custom authentication system that was written to integrate RIFE's authentication system with the facebook development platform and log users in with their regular facebook credentials.

This is a wonderful public acknowledgment of the uprise of Uwyn flagship project, RIFE as one of today's Java frameworks of choice.

Uwyn releases RIFE 1.5

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:03:00 +0200

Uwyn releases RIFE version 1.5, the next major release of our full-stack open-source component framework to quickly and consistently develop and maintain Java web applications.

Below are the highlights:

Complete injection and outjection support for all element data (bijection) [ more ]
Annotations support for element declaration [ more ]
Support for parallel and simultaneous continuations [ more ]
Fine-grained control over continuation trees and their invalidation [ more ]
Step-back continuations [ more ]
Stateful components [ more ]
Support for creating RIFE applications without any XML [ more ]
Performance improvements [ more ]
Support for reloading manually declared sites by site listeners [ more ]
Automatic recompilation of non-hotswappable or instrumented classes [ more ]
Generic Query Manager listeners [ more ]

You can read the full changelog for more details.

Geert Bevin, Uwyn's founder, has been officially awarded the title of Java Champion

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:08:00 +0200

In July 2006, Geert Bevin was honored by being awarded the coveted title of Java Champion by an international panel of over 50 Java leaders.

Currently there are only approximately 76 Java Champions in the world, out of a pool of 6 000 000 Java developers worldwide.

Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, says in an article on Java Developer's Journal, the idea is to build "a community of Java Champions that reflects the top echelon of contributors to the Java Community." And he goes further: "I look at these folks as the heroes of the Java platform ... These folks are truly both a wealth of knowledge for us to tap into, as well as a great resource to work with in making the Java platform easier to adopt worldwide.".

This title officially confirms Uwyn's leading position as a Java software development company. Feel free to look at our extensive know-how, our diverse client list and public project portfolio.

ito! selects Uwyn for support and guidance

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:47:00 +0200

ito! is building a platform for providing advanced analysis and visualisation services for the transpart sector.

They have selected the RIFE Java web application framework as their foundation and turned to Uwyn for punctual development support. To ensure that ito!'s product stays on track, we also audit their source code and give guidance to the development team with recommendations of best practises, design patterns and tool usage.

Uwyn provides commercial support and services for the RIFE framework as part of our product offering. Feel free to contact us for full pricing details or for additional information.

Uwyn presents two sessions at TheServerSide Java Symposium 2006

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:11:00 +0200

Geert Bevin of Uwyn has presented two technical sessions at the annual TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas.

The content was focused on Uwyn's Java framework, RIFE with one session covering a revolutionary concept in web application development, called continuations.

The slides of both presentations can be downloaded from our resources section.

RIFE and its concepts are slowly gaining acceptance in the Java community, as industry leaders like Gavin King calls it "very innovative and interesting" and says it's "seeding the community with new ideas", and Bruce Tate regularly uses it as Java's answer to modern programming techniques in his Crossing Borders series at IBM developerWorks.

Uwyn's creative approach to solving difficult problems without losing focus on productivity and maintainability is also catching headlines, most notably in today's breaking application development news on eWeek.

Geert Bevin is invited at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Europe later this year, to talk about the same topics.

Uwyn releases the first version of JHighlight, an embeddable Java syntax highlighting library

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:41:00 +0100

JHighlight is an embeddable Java syntax highlighting library that supports Java, Groovy, C++, HTML, XHTML, XML, and LZX languages and outputs to XHTML.

The library can be used in several ways:

embedded into another tool (for instance a blog or forum),
through the command-line to generate highlighted files locally, or
as a servlet filter to highlight source files on your server on-the- fly.

It also supports RIFE templates tags and highlights them clearly so that you can easily identify the difference between your RIFE markup and the actual marked up source.

The project has been developed by Uwyn bvba/sprl and has been made possible thanks to gracious source code donations of Omnicore Software.

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Uwyn releases RIFE 1.4

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:07:00 +0100

Uwyn releases RIFE version 1.4, the next major release of our full-stack open-source component framework to quickly and consistently develop and maintain Java web applications.

Below are the highlights of this release:

Real POJO support with meta data merging [ more ]
New (X)HTML template tag syntaxes [ more ]
Experimental Ajax support with DWR integration [ more ]
Embedded element priorities [ more ]
Strict pathinfo mapping [ more ]
Deprecated CmfProperty and CmfValidation [ more ]
Flowlink-specific datalinks [ more ]
Mail queue support for authentication and SSL [ more ]
Support for setting reflexive outputs and globalvars across submissions [ more ]
Bug fixes [ more ]

You can read the full changelog for more details.

Uwyn delivers volunteer management tool to Greenpeace Belgium

Uwyn bvba/sprl — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:35:00 +0100

Greenpeace Belgium has several offices throughout the country. They all need to be able to access and maintain the information related to volunteers that are prepared to jump in whenever help is needed. Uwyn developed a fat client that runs locally on each workstation and communicates with a central server in the background. The architecture has been built in a scalable fashion, both for the client and for the server side.

The client application has been developed in RIFE, Java and Swing since Greenpeace has a heterogeneous collection of operating systems for desktop use. The operating-system independent nature of the Java platform and its excellent UI performance made it the best fit. Thanks to Java Web Start, the system administrator doesn't have to install and upgrade the application for each user. As needed, users just visit an URL to install and initially launch the application on their machine. Afterwards new versions are automatically downloaded and updated.

The interface has been designed for ease of use and clarity. It sports powerful features like example-based searching, collapsing panels, multi-instance form collections and integration with the desktop email client. A role-based authentication system allows the system administrator to give read or write access to those that have the permissions to do so. Apart from the low-level checks that are made in the back-end, the interface also adapts to reflect which features are enabled for the active credentials.

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Our showcase entry of this project gives additional screenshots and an overview list of all feature highlights..