Creating a sample Java EE 6 Blog Application with JPA, EJB, CDI, JSF and Primefaces on GlassFish

Java EE 6 is out and it indeed offers an interesting stack of technologies. So in today’s tutorial we are going to build a small sample web application that builds on this stack using Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Persistence API, Bean Validation, CDI and finally Java Server Faces and PrimeFaces. The application we’re going to develop is a simple blog app that allows us to create new articles, list them and – finally delete them. We’re also covering some additional topics like JSF navigation, i18n, Ajax-enabled components and the deployment on the GlassFish application server. ...

February 8, 2011 · 17 min · 3575 words · Micha Kops

Enterprise Java Bean / EJB 3.1 Testing using Maven and embedded Glassfish

Are you playing around with the shiny new 3.1 EJB API? Using Maven for your Java projects? Need an easy way to write and execute tests for your EJBs that depends on an Java Application Server? No problem using Maven Archetypes, the Maven EJB Plugin and the GlassFish embedded Application Container.. Prerequisites For the following tutorial we’re going to need an installation of Maven and of course – the Java Development Kit! ...

January 1, 2011 · 5 min · 969 words · Micha Kops