This is a brief tutorial that takes a quick look at some of the very basics of JSF, how we define pages and hook them up to server side objects. Rather than cover the fundamentals of starting a new JSF application, I’m going to start from one of the Knappsack archetypes which can provide you with a JEE 6 application ready to roll. In this case, we are going to start with a servlet based example so you can run it using the embedded servlet containers.
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This tutorial will demonstrate a pattern for creating CRUD applications in JSF and Java EE 6. While this is not the only way of implementing this mechanism, it does promote re-use and can give you essentially zero code CRUD pages requiring just the view code. The goal is to provide a single structure that provides the particular feature of being both stateless or conversational where we might want a conversational edit page and a stateless view page. This pattern is based on the EntityHome pattern that was used in JBoss Seam and carries over well to Java EE 6 with CDI. This is something I use all the time to make view/edit pages really quickly and unlike most of the automatic scaffolding in other frameworks, doesn’t need re-writing to go into production.
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In this tutorial, we will create a new project using the Knappsack Archetypes and compile and deploy it. For this example, we will use the jee6-basic-archetype. Before you begin, you will need to have installed Maven, but you no longer need to manually install the Knappsack Archetypes as they are in the Central Maven Repository now, so you just need to make sure your index is up to date. These instructions will work for any Maven Archetype you have installed and creating new maven projects in general.
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This is a brief guide to downloading and installing the Knappsack Maven Archetypes for Java EE 6. (more…)

While DataValve is mostly used with database driven back ends, this tutorial shows you how DataValve can turn a comma delimited file into a paginated list of objects that the user can page through. We will then use this data provider in a console application, a Swing application and a JSF web page using the DataValve data client interfaces.
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Many web applications offer users the option to change the appearance of user interface. One of the easiest ways to implement this is by offering different page color schemes by selecting different css style sheets. This article describes how to implement themes in JSF using CDI backing beans that the user can select as their default theme.
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This article describes how to install the JBoss Developer Tools plug-ins into the Eclipse IDE. You should already have Eclipse installed and configured.
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If you want to do some web development with Eclipse, you will need a web server for it to run on. The process for adding a server to Eclipse is usually the same for different server vendors. Typically though each vendor has different configuration options for setting up the server. For now, we’ll look at adding the server into the Eclipse environment.
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This article describes how to install artifacts into Maven from the source code. To start with you should have installed Maven and downloaded the source code you want to install. This same mechanism can be used for library jar files to archetypes that you want to install. (more…)

This tutorial will show you how to install DataValve into your local Maven repository. You should already have Maven installed locally on your machine into which we will be installing the DataValve libraries.
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