Glassfish 3.0.1, JDBCRealm with JPA2 entities
In the last post, I described how to install a JDBCRealm on Glassfish 3.0.1 and use form based authentication in JSF2. This time, I’ll discuss how to put JPA2 entities over these tables. After all, we...
View ArticleDoing Dependency Structure Matrices
(From my old Blog, Article – Dec 13, 2009) Introduction In a few words: a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) is a matrix representation of a system or a project that shows the information exchanges and...
View ArticleGetting Weld CDI into Tomcat 7
Once you know it, it’s easy. As usual… So here a short write-up on how to include Weld (1.1.8) into a simple Tomcat 7 Servlet container (obviously without all the Java EE 6 tralala). It’s a result of...
View ArticleSimple Jersey/REST and JSP based Web Application
The aim of this post is to show how to build a lightweight REST based web application on Jersey and JSP. This article discusses how to configure Jersey and build the first test skeleton of the REST...
View ArticleDEVOXX is coming and shows us the Future…
The DEVOXX Java conference is approaching fast and as lead of the brand new Future<DEVOXX>; track, I would like to share some general and track specific things. Devoxx (formerly named JavaPolis)...
View ArticleBrussels Java User Group talks online…
Some of the BruJUG talks are online and worth having a closer look… Enjoy the free knowledge! %CODE1%
View ArticleIgnite a Java EE 6 project for Eclipse Juno with Maven 3
Supposed that Maven and Eclipse are correctly installed, we can execute in the workspaces directory… E:\dev\workspaces>mvn archetype:generate [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO]...
View ArticleEssay: The future of Java web application development is RESTful
The Web is RESTful [] In 2000, Roy Fielding, one of the primary authors of the HTTP specifications, wrote a doctoral dissertation titled “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software...
View ArticleFOSDEM 2013
Brussels was, like every year in the first days of February, the center of the European and even galaxy-wide free and open-source world. Around 5000 geeks met this weekend at the FOSDEM conference to...
View ArticleAngularJS, Jersey, JSP and Java EE 6
The “topro” project (short for “topic proposer”, sorry I wasn’t very inspired on this) is a test that I made to play around with AngularJS. In the opposite to a lot of AngularJS examples on the net,...
View ArticleGuava/Logback and Weblogic12c
Using Google’s Guava libraries with Oracle’s Weblogic 12c is not a no-brainer. This is the result of Weblogic using a very old version of the Google Collections library, which is the predecessor of...
View ArticleFuture
Last year at the Devoxx 2012 in Antwerp, Belgium, we premiered a brand new track for Devoxx: Future<DEVOXX>. Driven by our passion for not only the traditional Java world of laptops, desktops and...
View ArticleCustom JAAS Realm for Glassfish 3
Building a custom JAAS realm for Glassfish 3 is actually quite straight forward, as long as you know how to do it :) The documentation available around is not very clear and it takes some time to...
View ArticleFree Java at FOSDEM 2014
FOSDEM is approaching quickly. The 1st and 2nd of February is the big weekend! This year there is again the Free Java dev room (K.4.201), unfortunately only for one day and not two like the other...
View ArticleThe ElasticSearch Java API
When you start diving into the ElasticSearch Java API, you will undoubtedly note that it is kind of a mystery. There is the official documentation and there is that what’s missing in these pages....
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