Bright Side Framework News

The Smart Value Object allows server components to track client-side modification of business objects in a rich client/J2EE server environment, by using the latest features offered by bytecode processing tools.

When developing client/server applications, the usual way is to implement the Value Object (VO) pattern, through a set of Java objects representing a lightweight graph of persistent server objects, that the server sends to the client for user modification.... read more

BS remoting 2.0.1 is a maintenance release which fixes a bug when used with JOnAS 3.3. The release also updates the build ant file to include task for the JOnAS distribution.

Last but not least, the distribution now contains the server code used for the new demo application showing the features of the BS Remoting in action !

As this demo is launchable by webstart don't hesitate and click on the link : http://www.bs-factory.com/jboss/remoting/webstart/remoting.jnlp ... read more

The BS Framework is about to be cut in pieces!!! Until now, the BS Framework was a big piece of code with lots of interdependent components on both client and server sides. As a result, it wasnt very easy to understand what was in it and how to use it. Therefore we decided to separate the components to allow you to use only the ones you need. This choice lead us to perform some refactoring on the code to clearly separate the packages.... read more

Dear BS Framework users,

The Bookstore's code has been updated and is now based on the 1.0 release of the Bright Side Framework (available on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsframework/\).

This will solve compatibility issues for those of you that were already using the latest framework release. Note that, as requested by a lot of users, a new packaging of the Bookstore's code is finally released. You now have everything you need to regenerate the files with Ant and XDoclet making customization easier, and for those of you just wanting to test the bookstore, it has never been any simpler...... read more

Paris, France -- April 28, 2003 -- Bright Side Factory has released a JOnAS version of the BookStore, its e-commerce demo application built with Bright Side Factorys open-source J2EE framework, BS Framework.

The BookStore was initially released in march 2003 on the Jboss server. It is now possible to seemlessly connect to either a Jboss or a JOnAS J2EE server.

JOnAS is the Open Source implementation by ObjectWeb of the J2EETM specification. JOnAS is part of the ObjectWeb Open Source initiative, which was launched in collaboration with several partners including Bull, the France Telecom R&D division and INRIA.... read more

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dear BookStore user,

the BookStore install & setup documentation is finally released ! This will
allow you to install and configure the BookStore on your own server, so that
you and play with it, learn how to use the Bright Side Framework, and
quickly build your own J2EE / Swing applications.

You'll find the setup documentation as well as install scripts on the
*updated* v1.2 BookStore's zip file on
http://www.bs-factory.org/BSFDocs/Bookstore/Bookstore-src.zip.... read more

Paris, France -- march 14, 2003 -- Bright Side Factory introduces the BookStore, an e-commerce demo application built with Bright Side Factorys open-source J2EE framework, BS Framework.

Following similar projects like Suns Petstore or the Xpetstore, the BookStore aims at demonstrating how to use open-source frameworks to quickly build J2EE applications, but also shows that fat Swing clients are easy to implement on an extranet with Webstart and the use of a HTTP firewall-friendly communication layer.... read more