Accidentially Published a New Mule IDE snapshot

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While working on bugs in Mule IDE, I usually push out snapshots to people for verification. I automated the upload process to the forge recently, but it seems that the default values were not chosen carefully enough. By default, my script pushes out to the release update site instead of the snapshot update site, which is clearly not what I want. Continue reading

Getting Started with iBeans in Eclipse

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This screen cast takes you through all the steps necessary to download and set up iBeans, Tomcat and Eclipse. Then there is a walk-through of how to create a simple echo example (using AJAX) and test/debug the application on Tomcat. Yes, this is 11 minutes but it does walk through all the steps and provides a lot of additional detail. Grab yourself a beverage and take the the tour!

Useful Links
– iBeans Download
– Eclipse Plugin information – including plugin site URL.

iBeans introductory screencast

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I just finished an iBeans screen cast that provides an overview of iBeans and provides a detailed tour of one of the examples that ships with the latest distribution. The example demonstrates how to schedule a task and perform bi-directional AJAX communication with the browser to plot geo-coordinates onto a map. This is the first in a series of screen casts for iBeans, the next one will demonstrate how to create an iBeans project in Eclipse. Stay tuned! Continue reading