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In my ongoing efforts to learn the JSF framework as thoroughly as possible, I decided to write a component, but, with the myriad of high quality components available, what was left for me to do? At the suggestion of my brother, who has been watching a similar effort underway in the Wicket space, I’ve decided [...]
Monthly archives: May, 2006
A Little Less Spring in Our Step?
Friday I had an interesting discussion with my boss, Mitch. I have been doing a lot of thinking about Java EE 5 and what it offers, and that has me reevaluating some of our technology decisions. Most notably, which was the bulk of my discussion with Mitch, is, “Do we really need Spring anymore?”
SOAP to slsb
As part of our migration to Glassfish, one of my tasks is to migrate all of the web services we’ve exposed via Mule to a session bean environment, which won’t be too hard since we only have two such deployments. The code changes are really pretty small, but non-obvious (given my nascent EJB3 knowledge). For [...]
FacesUtil: A missing, yet important piece
A reader brought to my attention that I have never posted the code to FacesUtil, a convenience class used, for example, in my JSF, PhaseListeners, and GET Requests article, so I’ll fix that oversight now. Before I get to the code, though, let me preface it by saying this: This code has grown as several [...]
Embedding JSF with Winstone
Sometimes, when developing a JSF application, it would be nice not to have to wait for your favorite container to start up. That’s especially true if your container is a full JEE stack like Glassfish or JBoss. Likewise, there are times when you might need to embed a web application in another, say some server [...]