Category: Articles
A Little Less Conversation…
One thing that I wrote that I haven’t really gotten around to examining and verifying in closer detail and validating my position on is the production of the conversational entity manager in the Knappsack archetypes. This article looks at this and re-evaluates my thinking on the use of conversational contexts in CDI.
Continue Reading...Deterring “ToMany” Relationships in JPA models
This article considers the issues of one to many relationships from the JPA model, and looks at an alternative strategy to provide more efficient and fine grained data access, to build more robust and lightweight applications and web services.
Continue Reading...Make a flexible architecture now, perfect it later.
Your Architecture Sucks and I Don’t Care ignited a bit of a flame war as such topics usually do. On one hand I can see the benefits of good architecture, but on the other, this must be weighed against the real goal of software which is to either generate revenue or perform some necessary task. […]
Continue Reading...Can Arquillian boost Java EE container quality?
Arquillian, JBoss’ foray into providing in-container testing for Java EE projects, could be used to give Java EE container developers the ability to test their containers using a set of tests based on expected Java EE behavior. Such tests will enable developers of the next generation of application servers to not only run unit and […]
Continue Reading...Handling missing resources with CDI Events
In part 1, we created a simple application that made use of string resource bundles in JSF and in part 2 we extended it by using CDI to inject the resource provider into beans so we can re-use our code for accessing locale specific string based resources.
Continue Reading...Injecting String Resource Services with CDI
In this post we looked at adding String resource bundles to our JSF applications to move our string constants into external resources that we can define for different locales. Now I want to extend that example to show how you can expand on that by using injection to access those resources.
Continue Reading...Resource Bundles in JSF 2.0 Applications
Setting up resource message bundles in JSF to provide multilingal messages and captions is often overlooked when first creating an application. Leaving it till later in the project means you will have to go back and manually change the constants over to resource based values. Resource bundles JSF 1.2 were far from perfect but fortunately, […]
Continue Reading...Considering Thick Client Javascript Applications
A post on Javalobby (Are Serverside Web Frameworks Becoming Irrelevant?) got me thinking again about javascript based web apps also called SOFEA or SOUI applications. While I don’t believe that the end is near for server side frameworks, (after all a similar post was written 3 years ago), I think it there is a growing […]
Continue Reading...My Framework Picks
When I talked about how Context Matters When Discussing Frameworks I intentionally left out naming any picks because the point of that article wasn’t to start a framework debate (neither is this one, but at least it will get isolated in here). In this post, I’ll cover my choice of frameworks.
Continue Reading...Context matters when discussing frameworks
As if web framework religious discussions weren’t annoying enough, one thing that I always think is missing from such debates is context regarding the type of application being developed. It’s like discussing the best mode of personal travel without taking the type and size of journey into account. There’s a reason why you walk to […]
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