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 […]
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...It’s a Girl!
After my wife being in hospital for a month, she finally gave birth to Amy Louise Gibson who was born on 29th October 2010 at 9:01pm weighing 6 lbs, 5oz, and 18.5 inches long. Not only is this the third October birthday in our house (my son Michael is on the 24th and I’m on […]
Continue Reading...CDI @Alternative Info
The @Alternative CDI annotation allows you to have multiple matching dependencies for a given injection point. This means you can define beans that provide implementations for the same interface without worrying about ambigious dependency errors. When you mark a class with the @Alternative annotation, it is effectively disabled and cannot be considered for injection. The […]
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