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[jsr372-experts] Re: [jsr372-experts mirror] Adopt-a-JSR Session for JSR 372

From: Josh Juneau <juneau001_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:32:04 -0600

Thanks Kito. I am planning to put together a blog post on the meetup,
including links to the documentation and code examples. I will send a
follow up to this email once I've gotten a post published.

Thanks again

Josh Juneau
juneau001_at_gmail.com
http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com
https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com> wrote:

> Hello Josh,
>
> This is awesome -- so glad to see this. Do you have a blog post or
> another link we can publicize?
>
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> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Josh Juneau <juneau001_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Chicago JUG adopted JSR 366, and last night I presented on JSR 372
>> for the Adopt-a-JSR initiative. Liferay of Chicago hosted the event
>> (special thanks to them for hosting), and it was a two hour session in
>> which we covered two tracks: New to JSF, and Hacking JSF.
>>
>> The "New to JSF" track was well received, and I hope that it sparks some
>> new interest in JSF. I basically wrote up a sample JSF application, and
>> Bob Paulin went through the project from start-to-finish, using NetBeans
>> IDE, to show off JSF to those who were new to it.
>>
>> I spent much of my time in the "Hacking JSF" track, where we discussed
>> how to download the Mojarra sources, build them, and add them to your
>> projects, and also how to begin testing the new JSF 2.3 features. I made
>> sure to mention that any issues should be tested against the Milestone
>> releases, rather than the trunk or SVN sources. I took the group through
>> the JIRA, and I also noted a few areas where the Adopt-a-JSR initiative
>> could really help out (documentation, testing, feedback, etc.)
>>
>> We also took the opportunity to dig into the sources a bit, and we worked
>> on JIRA issue 3429. During the course of the session, we were able to
>> utilize NetBeans to load the sample project that was included in the JIRA
>> for this issue. We debugged the sample, and pin-pointed the JSF sources
>> (down to a method) that are causing the issue. We didn't end up with a
>> resolution to the issue as we ran out of time, but this was a valuable
>> task, as it provided our group the opportunity to dig into the JSF sources
>> a bit, work through an issue, and also get some experience using the JIRA.
>>
>> All in all this was a productive session, and I think it was very well
>> received.
>>
>> Josh Juneau
>> juneau001_at_gmail.com
>> http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com
>> https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866
>>
>>
>