Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late evening: April 15th, 2011
In the java world we have been using and getting used to annotations since Java 1.5. Although there were some critical voices at first, I think most of us have come around and are using annotations now quite extensively. In my experience annotations are mostly used on POJO domain classes to configure frameworks like Hibernate, Spring and Seam and many other frameworks to be able to handle the custom objects correctly.
There are as many different approaches to this as there are implementations. In this blog I try to identify a few of the better approaches and a few of the poorer ones. The blog is not so much meant as a critique on the frameworks that the examples are taken from, but more as a guide to designing your own annotations whenever you might be faced with that task.
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Posted by Maarten Winkels in the late afternoon: June 6th, 2009
Say you want to build a web application and you want to use Seam for integrating standard technologies like JSF and EJB. Furthermore, you want to use the power of Maven to build your project for different environments, on different systems (like you continuous build system) and use its’ rich reporting features to get an overview of the code quality of your project. And of course you want to use a good IDE, like Eclipse with JBoss tools to aid you in development. How does one go about setting up all these things?
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Posted by Ruchika Goyal terribly early in the morning: April 24th, 2009
Validations are a huge part of any software development. We need to validate that the data being entered from the UI is correct i.e of correct type or we are not leaving a notNull/notEmpty fields to be blank. There are so many ways to fulfill these requirements and we can have UI level validations or persistence level validations.
Posted by Gaurav Kohli around lunchtime: April 21st, 2009
In this article we will basically try to understand the basic difference between different ways in which we can do Seam application development. So before we get into details, let have a brief introduction about Seam
Posted by Sunil Prakash Inteti in the early afternoon: April 17th, 2009
SeamTest is a class we extend for the tests we write in our Seam application. It provides the seam environment in tests something analogous to WicketTester in Wicket Application.
I want to share some information on setting the property of Session bean, i came to know while using the SeamTest.
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