Double the speed of (some of) your JSF pages (and dodge bugs too)
There was a thread on the JSF LinkedIn group about JSF performance and a number of people complained about the fact that as part of the restore view phase, JSF reconstructs the component tree including binding data to data tables causing unnecessary fetches of data from the database. This article looks at one way of […]
Continue Reading...Generate Test Data with DataFactory
DataFactory is a project I just released which allows you to easily generate test data. It was primarily written for populating database for dev or test environments by providing values for names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, text, and dates.
Continue Reading...Shrinkwrap DSLs Makes Building Config Files Easy
If you’ve used Shrinkwrap you might have noticed that creating configuration files can be a bit of a burden requiring you to manually build XML configuration files yourself as strings. This article shows how the DSLs being added to Shrinkwrap will make configuring your deployments far easier.
Continue Reading...Google is just looking out for the folks
I noticed this little nugget in the Google Analytics FAQ : Due to user privacy concerns, Google Analytics doesn’t report on personally identifiable information, including a visitor’s IP address. Is this the same Google that will take a picture of you in your own home from 20 feet away, post it online, and tell you […]
Continue Reading...JBoss Java EE 6 spec dependency in Maven
Adam Bien wrote about the Troubled with the crippled Java EE 6 APIs in Maven and a solution for them. Another solution has presented itself now that JBoss has finalized the Java EE 6 spec pom and added it to their public repositories as of early January 2011. You can include the spec in your […]
Continue Reading...Delphi still fighting the war lost years ago
Embarcadero announced the release of the Delphi XE Starter edition for building native windows applications. I spent many years as a Delphi developer before I made the switch to Java while the Delphi programming language and tools were top notch at the time. However, with the years of abuse at the hands of Borland and […]
Continue Reading...Simple RESTful web services with Glassfish
Here’s a quick guide to creating a RESTful web service with Glassfish using JAX-RS.
Continue Reading...A Little Less Conversation…
One thing that I wrote that I haven’t really gotten around to examining and verifying in closer detail and validating my position on is the production of the conversational entity manager in the Knappsack archetypes. This article looks at this and re-evaluates my thinking on the use of conversational contexts in CDI.
Continue Reading...Need a Java developer in Pittsburgh?
If anyone is looking for a good experienced Java, JSF developer in Pittsburgh PA, get in touch. I can be reached through my contact form which goes straight to my email.
Continue Reading...Deterring “ToMany” Relationships in JPA models
This article considers the issues of one to many relationships from the JPA model, and looks at an alternative strategy to provide more efficient and fine grained data access, to build more robust and lightweight applications and web services.
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