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Will Iverson

Will Iverson is the CTO for Dynacron Group (http://www.dynacrongroup.com/). Previous roles include architect and consulting practice management. He has previously worked with Apple, Sun, BEA, and Symantec and is the author of several books on Java software development, including Real World Web Services and Mac OS X for Java Geeks.
 

Articles

Building Web Applications with Maven 2
Ant is the default for many web application developers, but Will Iverson makes the case that using Maven 2 can save you a lot of time and hassle through its approach of sensible defaults. In this article, he introduces core Maven 2 concepts and then shows you how easy it is to develop a web app...
Behind The Scenes of Project Looking Glass
Project Looking Glass, highlighted in Scott McNealy's JavaOne keynote, is a 3D desktop environment that uses Java and hardware graphics acceleration to deliver a new kind of user experience. And now, it's open source. Will Iverson interviewed lead developer Hideya Kawahara to learn more about the...
Introduction to SiteMesh
Do you have items like footers or navigation bars that you'd like to repeat on every page of your site? Do you want to add them easily? Then maybe, says Will Iverson, the "decorator"-based SiteMesh is for you.

Weblogs

Google App Engine & Java Hosting - Oh My!

Over the last few years, I've been watching the various cloud computing initiatives with great interest - at the most basic level, I love the idea of being able to abstract the hardware purchase...

Announcing BeanView 1.0.1

BeanView is library for automatically generating user interface forms directly from JavaBeans, with built-in support for validation and complex data models. For more information about BeanView,...

Announcing BeanView 1.0

I've been working on an open source framework for some time now, which I have now released as BeanView 1.0. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.beanview....

Comments on Ajax and Web Frameworks

My previous article on web frameworks and the impact of Ajax got a lot of interesting...

Rethinking web development, or "Will I be spending the rest of my life writing JavaScript"?

I remember when I first started doing Java development, and the first time I saw a servlet in action - I thought it was awfully cool that the HTTP protocols were so seamlessly wrapped up. Wow....

Catching Up

Monday

First, a couple of quick hits - EJB 3.0 support seems to clocking along - TopLink will support EJB 3.0 (...
Day 0: NetBeans Day

Today was day zero of the show - tutorials and NetBeans Day. In keeping with my ongoing interest in IDEs, I went to NetBeans Day.

There was a good deal of overview and introductions, but...

Planning for A Decade

Tomorrow marks the start of the tenth JavaOne.

Putting things back together: JSF, EJB 3, Looking Glass, and WA

I'd like to preface this entry with a brief comment: do NOT schedule your out-of-state move the same week as JavaOne. More on that in a moment.

I managed to hit (and tremendously enjoy) the...

JavaOne Tuesday: More JSF, POJO Persistence, and Web Services

More fun today with JSF, including some discussion of integration with the new POJO persistence systems, and some musings on web services.

JSF & JDO

JavaOne Monday: JSF, 3D, and Tools

JavaOne this year is proving to be an exciting and interesting event. Between Hibernate and EJB 3.0, there is a sense that the persistence world is moving toward a more rational, coherent model...

Still Lots To Be Done...

So, I've posted a brief list of significant things that the technology business really ought...

What ever happened to SVG?

So, I started playing around with a tool called Fujaba (a reasonable free Java/UML modeling tool). I needed something that would export UML...

Great Looking Swing

Take a look at the demos (WebStart-enabled) at jgoodies.com. Some very nice looking Swing apps - and you can grab the...

State of Web Services 2004?

So, I'm working on some material related to web services right now, and I'm pondering what at first seemed like some straight-forward questions.

"What's going on with web services nowadays...

Java and TiVo - Ready To Go

The description from http://javahmo.sourceforge.net/ really says it all...

"JavaHMO implements a media server for the Home...

The Future of Native Interfaces

I got a lot of questions about JNI after my Mac OS X for Java Geeks book was published. I just...

Bandwidth, Installers and Schema Updates

I recently wrote an article, "Create Desktop Applications with Java-Based Web Technologies" for...

A Saga of Palm Java Development

A little while ago I mentioned that I was looking into development of some Palm applications. I've been torn between C/C++ development and Java, and digging into the tool set available led to...

Annoying Data Types & Open Sourcing A Schema Update Library

One of the things that I've been somewhat annoyed by is the sheer variety of data types floating around.

A Busy World Filled With Links

Still looking into Hibernate, expanding a bit into Middlegen.

Wandering the Floor

I've found that one of my favorite places is the exhibitor floor. I've found that a lot of the information in sessions I'm able to find online or in books, but when it comes to rapidly...

What's New, What's Interesting

JavaOne always means two things for me - first, make a list of stuff to check out as soon as the conference is over, and second, buying a lot of books at the bookstore at the end of the show as...

Waiting for JavaOne

So, tomorrow is the unofficial first day of JavaOne. Having been to every single JavaOne since it started (and NetscapeOne a year prior), it's become something of a ritual to spend a week in...