The command pattern is a behavioural pattern that encapsulates a request made to a certain object inside a Command object. Each type of command knows how to Execute() itself, as well as its target instances. In the example above, taken from the Gang...

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has introduced a number of fixes, additions and changes to the previous Beta 1 version. As I said in a previous post, I believe the improved error handling and detailed exceptions are among the best improvements, and also the less...

One of the current most interesting technologies around is Microsoft Silverlight, whose intention is to provide a programmer and designer friendly way to develop web UIs. It is basically a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation, although it has...

In the first part of the article, we showed how to let a JSF bean drive a GWT module through an exposed JavaScript API. Now we'll see how to make a GWT module raise events in a way such that a call to the server is made letting it respond accordingly...

Since some time ago, there seems to be a fight between two "philosophies" as regards web applications. Each philosophy has its own representatives amongst the various frameworks or platforms we can select to help us develop our app. On one hand there...