Development

With the latest versions of indy/1.1.1.5.31469+ (which you can download from here: http://www.projectzero.org/download/indy.php), changes have been made to the dependencies for Dojo, Zero Resource Forms and iWidgets. App Builder has been updated to reflect these changes in the default dependencies used for HTML pages, and for pages with Zero Resource Forms or pages with [...]

We have had many requests to have App Builder be able to Start an application without forcing it to run in Debug mode.
With the latest versions (indy.dev/1.1.1.5.31471+), App Builder will ONLY start applications in Debug mode when the application is started from the Debug tab. Starting an application from any other App Builder tab [...]

Check out this second installment “Automate enterprise operations through a cloud by wrapping management tools for external systems” in a series of articles on practical ways that we have used WebSphere sMash related to the operations of IBM’s Green Innovation Data Center (GIDC).   The GIDC is both a client briefing center and a living lab, [...]

In the latest Indy builds we’ve added support for performing custom Dojo builds. Without a custom Dojo build, browsers pull down Dojo piece by piece, and wait for each synchronous web call to finish before performing the next one. Custom Dojo builds allow you to create a file with just the Dojo functions your application needs, which can significantly improve performance.

Support has been added to App Builder to make it easy to override the default theme used by App Builder.
This video shows how to override the theme used by App Builder, and the information below also gives the details and screen shots of the available sample themes.

Override App Builder Theme
You can override the default theme [...]

Do you want to read up on some practical uses of WebSphere sMash?  Check out this first installment in a series of articles on ways that we have used WebSphere sMash related to the operations of IBM’s Green Innovation Data Center (GIDC).   The GIDC is both a client briefing center and a living lab, where [...]

The latest fix pack for 1.1.1 has been published to both the projectzero.org and official sMash GA repositories. You may also download the DE version 1.1.1.4 from the Project Zero download page. This fix pack is being released to address a performance regression found in the 1.1.1.3 fix pack. The sMash 1.1.1.4 fix pack change [...]

Friday saw us announce our CICS Dynamic Scripting Feature Pack. So I’m looking forward to share my excitement in this blog.
So, who am I? I’m the development lead for Application Enablement in CICS TS, which is a fancy way of saying the ‘new stuff’. Most recently that’s involved looking at getting all the bits in [...]

Erik Kristiansen, IBM WebSphere Software Product Manager for Application Server Feature Packs, shared some of the topics he will be speaking about at IBM Impact next week in Las Vegas including dynamic scripting with sMash, OSGi and JPA. Other IBM speakers including XTP Technical Evangelist Lan Vuong, Cloud Computing Technical Evangelist Dustin Amrhein and WebSphere [...]

The following updates have been made to the Appbuilder dependency management.

Appbuilder has been updated to resolve/update against the applications which are in the list of applications open in the Appbuilder (in addition to applications in the local repository), rather than resolving against applications which are in peer folders.  We have had complaints that resolving against [...]