David Qiao’s Blog

We are pleased to announce the second major update to JDAF. With over 60 new features and improvements, an updated developers guide and greater stability, you’ll find JDAF even more powerful and easier to use than ever. See the changes here.
Improved MVC
JDAF now supports the notion of primary and secondary DataModels and DataViews. This is [...]

We just had 2.2.1 release and introduced several cool components. Here are the screenshots. You will know what those components for immediately after seeing them.
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GroupList 
 

DualList
 
AggregateTable

Last Friday we released 2.2 version. This is a major release. In this release, we introduced a new product called JIDE Dashboard. This is again a customer contract but we kept the copyright within JIDE so that we can release it as a product.

What is JIDE Dashboard exactly? If you want me to explain in one [...]

I was reading Kirill Grouchnikov blog  while getting a customer request to implement such a feature. Kirill wrote a series of blogs on how to support validation overlay. He did a great job in explaining different solutions and comparing pros and cons. However he doesn’t seem bother to reach a conclusion. Maybe there isn’t one [...]

The open source project home page is alive now. You can see it and download the source code at https://jide-oss.dev.java.net/.

Last week was a busy week for me. I was at San Jose attending Desktop Matters conference. It was just great. Thanks for Ben and Dion organizing it. I met so many people face to face for the first time although we emailed a lot in the past. In this conference, I announced that JIDE will [...]