(One of the) Best Burgers Ever
Believe it or not, but I find Applebees burgers to be the best burgers I have ever tasted! This may be heresy coming from a self confessed foodie, but hear me out. Usually, I find burgers from chains fairly throw away affairs, you get it, eat it, it’s hot, it probably has some nice toppings, […]
Continue Reading...Getting Started with JSF 2.0 and CDI part 3 – Events
Last time we looked more in depth at CDI and how we can define beans and inject them into other beans. This time we are going to look at how we can use events to decouple the handling of actions in the system.
Continue Reading...Understanding Nested Conversations
I had a bit of epiphany on the subject of nested conversations the other day when I was thinking about them and thought I’d share. I think nested conversations have been a little misunderstood with people unsure of how to use them, myself included, but I think I have found the best way to think […]
Continue Reading...Christmas Hiatus Over
Well, 2009 is done with and we are plunging headlong into 2010. Being European, I like to take a good week off around Christmas and New Year and with relatives here for Christmas I haven’t spent much time on work or blogging. So for those that have sent emails, apologies for the delay and I’ll […]
Continue Reading...Getting Started with CDI part 2 – Injection
In part 1, we looked at creating a JEE 6 application with Netbeans using JSF and CDI running on Glassfish. Now we’ll take a closer look at using CDI for managing dependencies in a Java EE 6 environment.
Continue Reading...Getting Started with JSF 2.0 and CDI in JEE 6 part 1
Here’s a quick tutorial on how easy it is to get started with JSF 2.0 and JSR 299, Java Contexts and Dependency Inject (CDI) using the latest release of Netbeans 6.8.
Continue Reading...Java EE 6 Is Here
Like Christmas come early, Sun announced the release of JEE 6. This release sees continued improvement in the JEE stack with the inclusion of JSR 299, Java Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI), and EJB 3.1 as well as JSF 2.0, and JPA 2.0. JSF especially has seen changes as a result of practical user feedback […]
Continue Reading...Seam is Dead, Long live Seam
With Weld 1.0, the reference implementation of JSR 299 – Java Contexts and Dependency Injection now released, attention at JBoss has no doubt turned to Seam 3 which is going to be built on top of Weld. Red Hat and JBoss are committed to returning innovations back the JCP as is the case with Seam […]
Continue Reading...Conversational Pitfalls
Seam conversations have certain rules that you need to be aware of when using them. This article came about because for the last couple of years, the same questions have been asked on the Seam forums regarding conversations. It is also a couple of issues that cropped up while I was working on the Seam […]
Continue Reading...Glassfish, Netbeans and JSF 2.0 Test Drive
I’ve spent some time in the last couple of weeks playing around with Glassfish, Netbeans 6.8 Beta (and milestone 2 before it) and JSF 2.0, and I have to say that this is turning out to be a really good set of development libraries and tools.
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