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I’ve been using a technique a lot, recently, for initializing an object a bit more succinctly. It looks pretty odd, I’ll admit, enough so that it really caught a coworker of mine off guard. If you’ve been reading my recent REST posts, you’ve seen this a few times. I like it a lot, so I [...]
Category archives: JavaServer Faces
Java EE’s Buried Treasure: the Application Client Container
From time to time, I’m asked about accessing various EE artifacts (EJBs, etc) from a standalone client. Almost invariably, the user is having trouble getting the environment setup, grabbing an InitialContext, etc. Also almost invariably, my answer to them is “use the application client container”, which is as far as I can take them. The [...]
Running Long-Running Reports with JMS
At a recent meeting of the Oklahoma City JUG, I was asked by a member how her group could “script” JSF report generation. After a couple of questions, I figured what she really wanted: she wanted a way to allow users to request reports in an ad hoc manner, as opposed to the reports being [...]
Interested in Remote Method Calls via JS in JSF?
One of the nicest enhancements to the JSF specification that 2.0 brought was the inclusion of native Ajax support. It is now extremely simple to Ajaxify a JSF application. One thing that it lacks, though, is the ability to call arbitrary methods on JSF (or CDI?) Managed Beans. There is a project that offers that [...]
Mojarra 1.2_15 Now In Maven Repo
Way back in July, Ed Burns released and announced Mojarra 1.2_15, which is mostly a backport of performance fixes from the 2.0 branch. Given recent changes on the Mojarra team1, there was some confusion and difficulty getting the jars published to the java.net Maven repository. I’m happy to report, though, that we’ve gotten those kinks [...]
Book Review: JSF 2.0 Cookbook
Packt Publishing recently released a book titled JSF 2.0 Cookbook, by Anghel Leonard. When I first heard about this book, I was really anxious to get my hands on it. I really like the cookbook concept, so I was excited to see a work in that vein published for JSF. Packt recently sent me a [...]
Book Review: JSF 1.2 Components
Some time ago, I was given a copy of JSF 1.2 Components by Ian Hlavats and asked if I’d write a review for it. It’s long overdue, but here are my thoughts on this book.
Writing Selenium Tests for the GlassFish Admin Console
One of the results of the Oracle purchase of Sun has been an increased focus on testing — not that we didn’t test GlassFish before, but it was mostly manual in my area of the server. The task of automating this fell to me, and, after a little — ahem — testing, I settled on [...]
New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part IV – sc:combo
Yesterday brought us Part III in our look at some new components in Mojarra Scales. Today, Part IV brings us sc:combo, combination, if you can imagine that, of a h:selectOneMenu and h:inputText.
New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part III – sc:imageZoomer and sc:lightbox
In Part II of this series, I introduced the new auto complete component in Mojarra Scales. In this installment, we’ll take a look at two new closely related components, sc:imageZoomer and sc:lightbox.