Simple RESTful web services with Glassfish
Here’s a quick guide to creating a RESTful web service with Glassfish using JAX-RS.
Continue Reading...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...Need a Java developer in Pittsburgh?
If anyone is looking for a good experienced Java, JSF developer in Pittsburgh PA, get in touch. I can be reached through my contact form which goes straight to my email.
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...Read All About It!
I dusted off my PHP skills and added a new custom wordpress page to list all articles for a set of tags to create a kind of index page. The articles are grouped by tag and ordered by date so you can see the whole library of articles and tutorials. You can also find the […]
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...Back from the Christmas Break
Happy 2011! Well, I’m back from the Christmas break. I had a lot going on last year so took some time out. If you posted an email or comment, I’ll get back you this week. I spent a month working on a 3D terrain rendering engine that provides real time terrain and texture generation and […]
Continue Reading...JBoss 6.0 CR1 is Released
JBoss has put out a CR1 release for JBoss 6.0 which implements the Java EE 6 specification. I don’t normally cover product releases, but I thought I may as well mention it since nobody else has (not even their blog). I only found out when I was sniffing around in their Maven Repositories and found […]
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