Bootstrap

Java EE 7 is out now and so I was curious to play around with the new specifications and APIs from in this technology stack. That’s why I didn’t hesitate to add yet another websocket-chat tutorial to the existing ones on the internet in favour of gathering some experience with this technology and a possible integration using a GlassFish 4 server, the new Java API for JSON Processing for data serialization combined with custom websocket encoders/decoders and finally adding some Bootstrap and jQuery on the client side. ...

There are a lot of frameworks out there to create offline applications and rich clients in Java. One exotic alternative is to use the HTML, CSS and Javascript for this purpose and render the application in a Java frame using SWT and SWT’s browser component. Creating a new Project We’re using maven here for our project but you shouldn’t have a problem to use SBT, Gradle or Ivy instead… Adding Maven Dependencies We need two things .. first comes a repository for the swt dependencies … ...