F.Marchioni One of the most compelling needs of applications is to read initialization properties. If your application is EJB-centric, then a very simple strategy is to read the properties from a File and store them in an EJB Singleton. Here is how to do it. At first here is how our application looks like: DemoApp.war | … Read more
Today I’ve found one interesting question on StackOverFlow of one user asking to read the web.xml context params from a CDI Bean. Luckily it’s not complicated at all to accomplish this task. In order to be able to read the web.xml context-params from a CDI Bean all you need to do is injecting the ServletContext … Read more
This is the last of a series of posts (Extending PrimeFaces components is the first one, here the second one) with the purpose of explaining how to use PrimeFaces as an API to create new JSF components. Our main focus in this article is to add AJAX listeners to our components. The component that we are going … Read more
WildFly 8 introduces a new API which can be used to gather information about the WildFly cluster topology and receive notifications when new nodes leave or join the cluster. The org.wildfly.clustering.group.Group interface can be used for this purpose: The Group service provides a mechanism to view the cluster topology and to be notified when … Read more
As per definition, in a JBoss AS 7/WildFly Domain there can be at most one Domain Controller, which is in charge to manage the other Host Controllers and the Domain configuration. In this tutorial we will show how to check for the Domain Controller availability using JBoss Operations Network and get a notification in case … Read more
The purpose of this post is to show how we can use PrimeFaces base classes to create new custom components. In a nutshell we will see how to extend PrimeFaces. We will do that by developing a simplified version of the PrimeFaces Extensions Analogclock. Let’s start with the component class: @FacesComponent(value = AnalogClock.COMPONENT_TYPE) @ResourceDependencies({ … Read more
Installing a Datasource on JBoss AS 7 and WildFly as module can be tedious as it requires three commands to complete. However by creating a batch script you can easily automate the process and install it on every distribution with as little as a shell command. Here is a sample script to create a Datasource … Read more
Using Inheritance with Hibernate JPA. Featured articles: Mapping Table per Concrete Class Using Table per subclass strategy Using table per class hierarchy
List of Hibernate Query Articles  How to see the SQL generated by Hibernate Hibernate and JPA named query example Hibernate Query by example How to open an online cursor with Hibernate? Using native Queries with Hibernate and JPA How to call a stored procedure with Hibernate ? How to paginate your Entity How to … Read more
In this tutorial we will learn how quickly we can arrange for a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) Java EE application starting from a Database Table. We will use a mix of technology such as NetBeans IDE, WildFly and JBoss AS 7 as application server and Java EE and PrimeFaces API. So, the requirements for … Read more