Monday, April 16, 2012

Public, Protected, and Private Interfaces... Yes Interfaces.

One of the junior developers came to me on Friday and asked if an interface could be private, or protected. I said sure, but it must be an inner interface. The interface must be contained within a containing class. So I decided to create a couple of examples of interface fun for you to appreciate.

The NetBeans project is located here: interfaces.zip

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JSF 2 on JBoss AS 5.1.0

I was confronted with a requirement to run JSF 2 on JBoss Application Server 5.1.0 on Friday. As you may know, JSF 2.0 will run on Java EE 5 application servers, but not with all the bells and whistles that we have come to expect with Java EE 6.

Requirements

Instructions

  1. Install JBoss Application Server.
  2. Make sure that the server is not running.
  3. Go to the <jboss_home>/server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/jsf-libsdirectory.
  4. move the jsf-api.jar and jsf-impl.jar to a safe location. We will be replacing it with the javax.faces.jar from the JSF 2.0.9.zip distribution.
    Note: the javax.faces and com.sun.faces files are combined in one jar now. The Mojarra Reference Implementation is in a single jar now.
  5. Go to the <jboss_home>/server/default/deployers/jbossweb.deployer directory.
  6. Open the web.xml in a text editor and comment out the following lines:
  7. Start the application server and check the logs. You should see something like the following:
    14:23:30,058 INFO [TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/admin-console
    14:23:30,257 INFO [config] Initializing Mojarra 2.0.9 (SNAPSHOT 20120202) for context '/admin-console'
    14:23:45,013 INFO [application] JSF1048: PostConstruct/PreDestroy annotations present. ManagedBeans
    methods marked with these annotations will have said annotations processed.

Summary

You should be able to install and use JSF 2 with Java EE 5 Application servers like JBoss AS 5.1.0 without issues by simply updating the required JSF libraries.

Monday, April 02, 2012

JSF 2.0 JQuery-JSF Integration

I am publishing an example of how to use jQuery with JSF. This is a basic jQuery Dialog which is integrated into a JSF 2.0 Reference Implementation (Mojarra) page.

There are a couple of JSF frameworks which take extensive use of jQuery like PrimeFaces which I would highly recommend.

This is just a simple example to show you how to get started.

Here is the NetBeans Apache Maven Mercurial project: jquery-jsf-integration

index.xhtml



included.xhtml


JDBC-ODBC Bridge Example

I was recently asked how to use the JDBC-ODBC bridge. I told the person asking that "normally" you would want to use JDBC, and that the Sun developed bridge is not really for production use. I was reminded that there are some old databases out there which only support ODBC connections from Windows.

I wrote a quick example of how to use it which I thought I would share. I had to think about how to do it since it has been so long since I did such a thing. There are two examples of how to connect: one example is a "standard" JDBC connection, and the other takes advantage of the DataSource abstraction.

Note: I created an ODBC connection in Windows to the database called JDBCODBC for this example to work.

Here is the NetBeans code for the project: JavaJDBCODBC.zip

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