Updating Weld in Glassfish V3
(updated : This post refers to Glassfish installations prior to version 3.0.1 which was recently released and includes Weld version 3.0.1. Given the new version, this manual update is not necessary and should not be performed if you have an updated installation of Glassfish 3.0.1+) Even some of the recent versions of Glassfish include a […]
Continue Reading...Introducing DataValve
DataValve is a free open source library that facilitates the creation of re-usable view and data access components as well as providing a number of features for pagination, sorting and parameterizing queries. This article defines the problems DataValve aims to solve and how it solves them.
Continue Reading...Installing and Configuring Eclipse
This article shows you how to download and set up Eclipse in preparation for developing Java applications and includes configuring memory settings and if necessary alternate JDK versions.
Continue Reading...See Java EE 6 in action
I’ve just released a new project called Knappsack which is a set of Maven archetypes for Java EE 6. In addition to the usual starter projects, these archetypes provide complete example applications so you can see the features of JEE 6 and play around with it without having to butcher existing demo applications.
Continue Reading...FlutterCode.com released
I’ve been fairly quiet over the last couple of months as I’ve been working on a few items, working on a new site and working on getting two new Open Source projects final and out the door. I’ve renamed Spigot to DataValve, and moved it to the new site FlutterCode.com which will also host my […]
Continue Reading...R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio
Ronnie James Dio died at 7:45am this morning after a 6 month battle with stomach cancer. Ronnie had performed in a number of bands, most notably with Black Sabbath taking over from Ozzy Osbourne and with his own band Dio. He embraced the mythological themes of metal with dragons, castles, swords, magic and damsels featuring […]
Continue Reading...A Guide to Spigot For Seam Developers
Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve. (Edit : I renamed this post so it doesn’t seem like Spigot is just for Seam, Spigot can be used with different frameworks or without any at all. However, I wrote this post since Spigot is so familiar to the Seam EntityQuery that it should be easy […]
Continue Reading...Spigot 0.9.CR1 released
Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve and is hosted over on FlutterCode.com. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new as I’ve been busy with a new Open Source software project called Spigot. It’s a java library that sits between your application code and your data sources (Hibernate, JPA, JDBC or any […]
Continue Reading...Using Composition in Object Modeling
Using composition over inheritance is a common design pattern that is often discussed in terms of designing business logic components. However, composition can solve a number of problems in domain object modeling that are created by relying on inheritance to share interface or functionality. Composition is used to delegate implementation in logical units by enlisting […]
Continue Reading...Weld 1.0.1-CR2 is available
Dan Allen posted that the latest CR version of Weld is available. This should contain a number of bug fixes from the initial release of Weld, including the two problems I had with the request scope being available in EJB timeouts and problems with the ability to proxy stateless beans. This last bug was for […]
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