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Norman Richards has been busy working on a reference card for JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection recently. DZone just published it so go and check it out!
As we get closer to a beta release of Seam Remoting 3.0, I'd like to talk a bit about what I think is one of the more exciting new features - the Model API. While chatting with Max in Antwerp last year, we were discussing the challenges associated with manipulating persistent objects remotely via AJAX. Dealing with lazy-loaded associations, detached entities, how to apply updates, etc are all issues faced when developing an AJAX-based user interface backed by an RPC-style API.
Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-2 include:
Happy New Year everyone!
Boston JBoss User Group
I'm happy to announce the creation of the Boston JBoss User Group.
Some time ago I published an article at jroller in order to show how the rich:calendar performance can be improved by using single component instance for all the date inputs on the form. Today I want to use the same workaround to solve another popular problem.
You should upgrade to Java EE 6
With the release of Java EE 6, I've seen a number of recurring, but rather curious, arguments against upgrading to the new platform. These are usually deployed by folks who are using a homegrown
stack consisting of a servlet engine like Tomcat or Jetty together with a number of open source frameworks like Hibernate and Spring.
CDI portable extensions in the wild
Since the release of Weld and Java EE 6, there's been a heap of activity in the Weld user forum, and especially a lot of questions about problems related to framework development. You can do some kinds of generic programming in CDI just using managed beans, producer methods and InjectionPoint. But if you want to get serious, you're eventually going to have to embrace the portable extension SPI. Here's a couple of examples of how people are using this SPI.
