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Prior to revision 2.0, the JavaServer Faces specification states that all dates and times should be treated as UTC, and rendered as UTC, unless a time zone is explicitly specified in the timeZone attribute of the <f:convertDateTime> converter tag. This is an extremely inconvenient default behavior. This open proposal, targeting the 2.1 release, extends the Locale configuration to accommodate a default time zone preference that is used by default when a date is rendered.
What methods belong on an entity?
Kinda tangentially related to this discussion, I'm often asked whether I believe in rich
domain models or anemic
domain models. I guess I'm pretty much ignorant as to what these terms really mean, since I've never seen a proper definition of either term.
Want to use Seam with Maven?
Since I posted that Seam was now available in Maven, both Michael Yuan and Wesley Hales have blogged about creating a Seam project with Maven, including automagically setting up Tomcat with JBoss Embedded (cool, huh!) and deploying the project to it.
