This short series of articles covers some of the basics of working with Java EE 6 (JEE6) and in particular JSF 2.0 and CDI (JSR 299 Context and Dependency Injection). JSF 2.0 and CDI bring some fantastic new functionality to the table but at the same time they also replicate a lot of existing ideas …
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While developing a bit of functionality that transferred data from one database to another in my current JEE 6 web application I came upon the exception below. Surprisingly for exceptions from deep within system this one is actually quite informative if you understand what it’s saying: the key is knowing that XA means distributed transaction. Transactions can be …
Database connection pools are by far the simplest and quickest way to get a database connection from a JEE application. This article describes how to set up a new connection pool in GlassFish 3.1. Version 3.0.x of GlassFish used configuration screens that were very similar but in a slightly different place in the menu.
I’ve been having some problems with dates recently in the application I’m currently working on. I need to be able to specify a date that indicates when a particular piece of information becomes valid. Sounds simple enough, yes? I thought so until I actually came to try and implement it. The problem I faced stemmed …
Quick little JPA 2 issue that I faced today that I’m sure many other people have run into especially when starting out. The problem was and error message such as the one shown below when attempting to display the contents of a Set of other entities in a JSF page
One of the new features I really like in JSF 2.0 is the resource handling system that has been added. When I first heard about it I wondered why they had bothered but once I’d been using it for a while I realized what a good idea it is.