Java | Andy Gibson

Java 8 features key to adoption

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A new report by Typesafe indicates two thirds of developers plan on adopting Java 8 within the next year, with most of them aiming to adopt within 6 months. New versions of Java have always been slow to gain adoption among both developers and to a larger extent, the public. This has often led to […]

Auditing Entities With JPA Events

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This article shows how you can leverage JPA Lifecycle Events to automate the filling in of audit information. The first example uses a base entity class with lifecycle events that looks for a time stamp interface to determine whether the entity is audited.

Fading in Primefaces Components

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I was trying to fade in a Primefaces panel component that was initially hidden and found it to be somewhat of a struggle. After a bit of googling, the only thing I found out was that I wasn’t the first to come across the problem. Here’s the basic JSF code to use an effect on […]

Comparing JSF Beans, CDI Beans and EJBs

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There’s still a lot of confusion over the difference types of managed beans provided in Java EE 6 with EJBs, CDI beans and JSF managed beans all being available. This article aims to clear up some of the differences between the them and define when to use them.

Implementing Spring MVC with CDI and Java EE 6 part 2

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In this second article on implementing Spring MVC in Java EE 6 we’ll take the metadata we extracted in part one and use it to invoke request mapped controller methods in response to web requests and then direct the user to a web page based on the result of the method.

Implementing Spring MVC with CDI and Java EE 6 part 1

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One of the opinions I’ve had over the last couple of years is that Spring makes things look really easy, and CDI is a great dependency injection framework. Throw in this article suggesting you can build your own Java EE 7 and it sounds like a challenge, so for fun, I thought I might have […]

More Time Saved By Unit Tests

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So I’ve been meaning to make a fix in one of my projects for a while, and I haven’t touched the code in over a year, so of course I have to go back and really get back up to speed with the code. The change was for the Datavalve project and it was to […]

JSTL 1.2 Missing From Maven Repositories

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It seems in the last few weeks or so the Maven JSTL dependency has vanished from at least the central repository. This has caused a number of issues around the web.

Update

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I haven’t been writing for a while since I’ve been busy working on several things right now. First off, after a few months of job hunting, I’ve changed jobs, I’m now doing some Java contract work down in Pittsburgh. After 11 years at my old job, it was time to move on. The great thing […]

Announcing CDISource

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In the last few weeks I have been rather busy working on a new project with Rick Hightower, who is fairly well known for his training and writings on Spring and JSF, and Rob WIlliams who is a blogger known as much for meddling in new technologies (and getting mad at them) as he is […]