Lessons Learned from working with HTML5, GlassFish and

NetBeans

Mark Stephens IDRsolutions

Who is talking...

• Entrepreneur and founder of UK based IDRsolutions

• Systems Architect for PDF library and converters

• Talk at BoS, JavaOne, usergroups

• Work on PDF, HTML5, SVG in Java

• Make extensive use of web technologies and Java

• I have a degree in Mediaeval History...

Talk will consist of…• Introduction to HTML5/SVG and why we use it

• Interactive demo of NetBeans and GlassFish

• Include lots of hints and tips

• Questions at end.

• Lots of kitten pictures…

I will deny anything that I say in this talk (even if it is on video)

Official disclaimer

No kittens were harmed (or neglected) during the making of this

presentation...

HTML5Who is currently using HTML5?

Using HTML5 and NO other versions of HTML?

• Open standard

• Lots of support (especially on mobile)

• Backwards compatibility...

Key features• Javascript

• Dynamic

• CSS support

• Location

• Offline

• SVG

• Canvas

• Embed video content

• Inlining and Base64...

How good does it look?

HTML5 versus SVG

• Animation

• Forms

• Features

• Support

• Look…

HTML5 canvas

• Great for animation and games

• No real benefit for static content (use image or SVG)…

HTML5 support in...• IE 8 and before

• IE 9/10

• Firefox, Chrome, Safari behave differently on PC, Mac, Windows, Android

• IPad

• Android

Use WOFF and EOT fonts

Important note for Mac users - upgrade to Mavericks...

Our top 3 issues in HTML5...

Any guesses?

• JavaScript

• Fonts

• Implementation differences

It is never going to be 100% ...

HTML5 as a replacement for...

• Flash

• General web content

• PDF

• Native apps...

Have you noticed people starting to run mobile apps on their PCs???

What is NetBeans

What does this mean?

NetBeans IDE• 15 years young.

• Java/php/Android/HTML5/JS/CSS/Python/C/C++

• Cross-platform

• Git, Mercurial, SVN etc for VC

• Highly configurable

• Free

• Heavily supported by Oracle

• A natural platform for GlassFish....

GlassFish is an Application Server

What does this really mean?

No Glass

and no fish….

GlassFish consists of...

• A server program

• One of more client programs on glasses,phones, Tablet, Raspberry Pi, even PC

• They talk to each other.

You can run all on a single machine for testing and development…

It is a Magic door

Demos and stories

• Hello GlassFish

• HTML5 replacing flash

• Stories in HTML5

• Online marking

Happy developing

Questions?

http://www.netbeans.org !

http://glassfish.java.net/ !

http://blog.idrsolutions.com !

http://convert.idrsolutions.com

Details and links