Open Source is Hard
I’ve been working on getting my procedural texture library completed and released to the public which should be ready next week. I’m currently going through the difficulties that always go with getting that last bit of polish on a project to get it ready for public consumption. In particular, I’ve just switched over to maven […]
Continue Reading...Writing Multi-Maven Module Hibernate JPA Web apps
Here’s a couple of links regarding building Multi Module Apps with the Hibernate JPA Implementation. It was a subject I was starting to look at and these two articles just happened to cover both areas that I was interested in. Thought I’d share them and if nothing else, I know where to find them the […]
Continue Reading...Timing JSF Requests Using a Phase Listener
One easy way of determining how long it takes to return a page from Seam, and/or JSF is to use a phase listener. This phase listener below logs the end of each phase of the JSF lifecycle and measures the time from the start of the RESTORE_VIEW phase (the first phase in the lifecycle and […]
Continue Reading...Haitus and reflections
Well, I’ve had family in town for the last couple of weeks, and since the Lost finale, I’ve been tied up and thus not posting. Normally people shouldn’t blog about blogging, but it’s my one year anniversary of both blogging and switching over to Ubuntu from Windows. Taking a break was good as I tend […]
Continue Reading...Sign Me Up For Glee Club
I’m linking this vid as a must see. Not only is it a great song (Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing), but it is an awesome version of the song. I would say almost better than the original except for the band section in the middle which sounds synthesized, and a lack of rock edged guitar in […]
Continue Reading...Creating A Spring Web Flow JSF Project From Scratch
(Updated – 9 August 2010 – This was written in my pre-Maven days and after a few requests for working source, I’ve built the same project using Maven which can be downloaded. Just unzip the maven project, go to the directory in the command line and type mvn jetty:run to start the server and deploy […]
Continue Reading...Seam vs Spring Web Flow Part 4 – Conclusion
The last installment is finally ready. After many a re-write and consideration of all the issues to come to a fair conclusion, especially as new versions were coming out and new features are being added, I’m finally able to publish it. Framework Comparisons – are they ever completed? Anyways, here it is in all it’s […]
Continue Reading...Spring vs Seam Part 4 – Coming Soon (honest)
I know it has been a while since I pushed out my last piece on Spring Web Flow vs Seam, but I am still trying to get it ready. With Christmas, software releases at work leading to a hectic work schedule, and other stuff I have limited time. Furthermore, I am still re-writing parts of […]
Continue Reading...The biggest defence of hidden fields
In this post, In defence of hidden fields with Seam, I discussed the reasons for favoring hidden fields over page parameters. I accidentally missed the one big reason that I avoid using page parameters with Seam.
Continue Reading...Seam vs Spring Web Flow part 3
This is the third of a four part series comparing Seam vs Spring Web Flow (SWF),and looks at the Seam implementation of the sample application. (Updated 1/19/2009 : Changed links to point to the whole set of articles) HTML Single Page HTML PDF
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