JEE – Page 2 – Andy Gibson

JSF Basics

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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 […]

A Guide to Spigot For Seam Developers

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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 […]

Getting Started with JSF 2.0 and CDI part 3 – Events

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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.

Understanding Nested Conversations

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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 […]

Getting Started with CDI part 2 – Injection

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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.

Getting Started with JSF 2.0 and CDI in JEE 6 part 1

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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.

Seam is Dead, Long live Seam

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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 […]

Conversational Pitfalls

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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 […]