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list of reasons why I feel more productive on Java EE 6 than on Spring 3.1

these days there's really no reason for preferring vendor-specific APIs over JPA 2.0

Spring and Java EE applications mostly differ in the following areas only: the web framework (Spring MVC vs. JSF vs. Wicket vs. Vaadin vs. Struts vs.....) Spring Beans vs. EJB Spring Dependency Injection vs. CDI or Java EE 5 @EJB or @Resource injection

Spring MVC feels rather old-school

JBoss AS Tools

able to deploy my application directly from the workspace

bad news is that JBoss AS 7 does not currently support other persistence providers like Eclipselink, OpenJPA or DataNucleus

GlassFish and Resin, you can simply drop the JARs of your preferred provider and its dependencies in a designated folder of your server installation and edit your persistence.xml to override the default provider of the server

JBoss AS 7 appears to require an adapter per persistence provider, which to me looks like an unfortunate and unnecessary design decision

documentation continues to be sketchy and far below the standard of JBoss AS 5

top-level performance

classloader leaks

productivity issues of the Eclipse integration

lack of support for JPA providers other than Hibernate

Each of these is currently a blocker for using JBoss AS 7 in production

Redeployment

after a couple of redeployments, there was an OutOfMemoryError

new classloader leak

JBoss AS 7: Catching up with Java EE 6

Performance measurements

JBoss AS 7.0.2

GlassFish 3.1.1

Empty server startup time 1.9 s

3.2 s

Empty server heap memory 10.5 MB

26.5 MB

Empty server PermGen memory 36.3 MB

28.4 MB

MyApp deployment time 5.8 s

JBoss AS 7 is now at a competitive level with Resin and Glassfish and actually outperforms Glassfish in almost all of these tests

EJB MDG Technology for Enterprise Java Beans allows the user to model EJB entities and EJB sessions, complete with UML profiles for modeling EJB, EJB patterns and Code Management. (requires Enterprise Architect 4.1 or later)

ICONIX AGILE DDT ICONIX Agile Developer - Design-Driven Testing (DDT) streamlines the ICONIX modeling process, providing: Convenient modeling of robustness diagrams Automatic generation of sequence diagram structures from robustness diagrams Transformation of robustness control elements to test diagrams Transformation of sequence diagram elements to test diagrams Transformation of requirement diagrams to test diagrams Transformation between test cases and test classes. (JUnit & NUnit) Built-in model validation rules for ICONIX robustness diagrams (requires Enterprise Architect 7.5 or later)

Testing MDG Technology for Testing helps users to rapidly model a wide range of testing procedures including component testing, SUT, Test Cases and more. (requires Enterprise Architect 4.1 or later)

Instructions for loading an MDG Technology EXE file: Download and run the .exe file to install the MDG technology. Open Enterprise Architect. Select from the Main Menu Add-Ins | XYZ Technology | Load.

Built-in MDG Technologies: Most of the MDG Technologies provided by Sparx Systems are built into Enterprise Architect directly. Depending on your edition of Enterprise Architect, some or all of the following MDG Technologies will be available:

Gang of Four Patterns

Mind Mapping

Web Modeling

Data Flow (DFD)

Entity-Relationship (ERD)

Business Rule Model

BPMN™

@Model stereotype; it lets you give a bean a name, and set its scope to @RequestScoped in one stroke

What is the purpose of the @Model annotation?

The @Model annotation does to things: it makes the bean request-scoped (instead of dependent, the default) it gives the bean an EL name

@Inject

CDI managed beans. The @EJB annotation is removed and @Inject is used instead

Annotating the boundary (Cart) with the @Named annotation makes the Cart immediately visible for expression language (EL) expressions in JSP and JSF

@Named annotation takes the simple name of the annotated class, puts the first character in lowercase, and exposes it directly to the JSF pages (or JSP). The Cart bean can be accessed directly, without any backed or managed beans, by the JSF pages: <h:commandButton value="Check out!" action="#{cart.checkout}" />

If there is a need for abstraction, the class can be turned into an interface (or abstract class)

local implementation (with CDI events

@Inject Event<String> event;

event.fire("Order proceeded!");

remote implementation:

javax.enterprise.event.Event belongs to the CDI-implementation

class Event can be considered to be a lightweight alternative to the java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport class

@Inject Event<String> event;

event.fire("Order proceeded!");

event can be received by any managed bean and also by EJB beans

provide a method with a single @Observes annotated parameter

@Observes String event

there is no real event, just the payload:

The during attribute in the @Observes annotation allows you to select in which transactional phase the event gets delivered. The default setting is IN_PROGRESS, which causes an immediate event delivery regardless of the transaction outcome. The AFTER_SUCCESS configuration causes the delivery to occur only after successful transaction completion

Although CDI events work only inside a single process (in the default case, CDI is extensible), they are perfectly suitable for decoupling packages from modules

The method checkout() starts a transaction that gets "reused" by the OrderSystem and CustomerNotification session beans

ordering.placeOrder(); notifier.sendNotification();

EJB beans cannot be directly exposed to JSF or JSP without a little help from CDI

Spring, Seam, Ejb, Cdi

Client-side setup for remoting

initialize manually the Flex remoting channels that will be used by Tide

use the DefaultServiceInitializer component

We have no intention of releasing Seam 4

eventual aim is to migrate all of Seam 3 and MyFaces CODI to DeltaSpike

Control is a stereotyped class or object that is used to model flow of control or some coordination in behavior

usually describe some "business logic"

«Entity»

Entity is a stereotyped class or object that represents some information or data, usually but not necessarily persistent.

Features of a class are

Static features are underlined

«Boundary»

«Boundary»

«Control»

«Entity»

«Control»

Interface

An interface is a classifier that declares of a set of coherent public features and obligations

specifies a contract.

Data Type

A data type is a classifier - similar to a class - whose instances are

typical use of data types would be to represent value types

«dataType»

Enumeration

An enumeration is a data type whose values are enumerated in the model as user-defined enumeration literals.

«enumeration».

Multiplicity

Multiplicity allows to specify cardinality (allowed number of instances) of described element

Visibility

UML has the following types of visibility: public package protected private

Package visibility is represented by '~' literal.

Protected visibility is represented by '#' literal.

Private visibility is represented by '-' literal.

Step 2 securing some content

create a database that will hold the list of the authorized users along with their password

Create a new directory “auth” and add a new JSP under it, let’s call it “BackOffice.jsp“

enable Shiro into our project by adding a ServletFilter into our Web.xml

 <filter-class>05            org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.IniShiroFilter06        </filter-class>

10    <filter-mapping>11         <filter-name>ShiroFilter</filter-name>12         <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>13    </filter-mapping>

classpath:shiro.ini

shiro-core

shiro-web

create shiro.ini under resource dir

07ds.jdbcUrl=jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/shiro_schema08ds.username = APP09ds.password = APP

15/auth/** = authcBasic16/** = anon

jdbcRealm.authenticationQuery

jdbcRealm=org.apache.shiro.realm.jdbc.JdbcRealm

setup the jdbc realm, this is where Shiro will find the authorized users

map the URLs to be protected, all the url under /auth should be authenticated with basic HTTP authentication

All the other URLs should be accessed without authentication

Add a new directory under src let’s call it production we will create a new shiro configuration file compatible with MySQL

06ds.serverName = localhost07ds.user = ADM08ds.password = secret12309ds.databaseName = shiro_schema

jdbcRealm which use a MySQL driver

added the appropriate dependency to maven pom.xml

mysql-connector-java

environment.type

staging

13                <jdbc.user>APP</jdbc.user>14                <jdbc.passwd>APP</jdbc.passwd>15                <jdbc.url>jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/shiro_schema</jdbc.url>16                <jdbc.driver>org.apache.derby.jdbc.ClientDriver</jdbc.driver>

src/main/resources

derbyclient

production

environment.type

45                <jdbc.user>ADM</jdbc.user>46                <jdbc.passwd>secret123</jdbc.passwd>47                <jdbc.ds>com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource</jdbc.ds>48                <jdbc.serverName>localhost</jdbc.serverName>49                <jdbc.databaseName>shiro_schema</jdbc.databaseName>

src/production/resources

To build and run for staging

To build for production

-Denvironment.type=prod

cdiqi just forces Quartz to use CDI beans as its jobs

bounds request context to every job execution so that it's possible to use @RequestScoped, @Dependent and @ApplicationScoped jobs and especially beans

Event Bus

Contextual Components and Conversations

Contexts and Components

two main kinds of contexts:

unique context that exists during the whole lifetime of the Flex application

compared to to the server-side session

temporary contexts that can be created and destroyed at any time during the lifetime of the application

can exist simultaneously

isolated from each other

Components are stateful objects that can be of any ActionScript 3 class with a default constructor

have a name

A context is mostly a container for component instances

three available scopes:

always have to include this library in either WEB-INF/lib

support for CDI is included in the library granite-cdi.jar

10.1. Configuration with Servlet 3 On Servlet 3 compliant containers, GraniteDS can use the new APIs to automatically register its own servlets and filters and thus does not need any particular configuration in web.xml. This automatic setup is triggered when GraniteDS finds a class annotated with @FlexFilter in one of the application archives:

@FlexFilter(configProvider=CDIConfigProvider.class) public class GraniteConfig { }  

list of annotation names that enable remote access to CDI beans

@FlexFilter declaration will setup an AMF processor for the specified url pattern

@TideEnabled

@RemoteDestination

always declared by default

10.3.2. Typesafe Remoting with Dependency Injection

It is possible to benefit from even more type safety by using the annotation [Inject] instead of In. When using this annotation, the full class name is used to find the target bean in the CDI context instead of the bean name.

Security

integration between the client RemoteObject credentials and the server-side container security

client-side component named

API to define runtime authorization checks on the Flex UI

bindable property

represents the current authentication state

integrated with server-side role-based security

clear the security cache manually with

file listed under the filename parameter can be deployed to the server using the deploy goal

deploy

redeploy

undeploy

<phase>install</phase>

<goal>deploy</goal>

Deploying other artifacts

possible to deploy other artifacts that are not related to your deployment, e.g. database drivers:

<phase>install</phase>

<goal>deploy-artifact</goal>

<configuration> <groupId>postgresql</groupId> <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId> <name>postgresql.jar</name> </configuration>

artifact must be already listed as a dependency in the projects pom.xml.

Deploying your application in domain mode.

add the domain tag as well as specify at least one server group.

<domain> <server-groups> <server-group>main-server-group</server-group> </server-groups> </domain>

There is a drawback: not all views are updatable. Whether a view is updatable or not highly depends on the complexity and particular database

for each workspace, in files stored in <workspace>/.metadata/.plugin/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings

for each project --for project-level settings -- in files stored in a .settings sub-directory of your project folder

Is there an UML editor for Eclipse? An Eclipse Modelling project-based UML editor can be installed from the Eclipse update site "Modelling > UML2 Tools SDK". See Creating UML 2 diagrams with Eclipse UML2 Tools - Tutorial for an introduction.

How do I debug Eclipse? How can I see what plug-ins are being started? Why aren't the plug-ins I installed showing up in the UI? How do I start the OSGi console?

Debugging OSGi Bundle Loading Issues There are a few flags you can pass to Eclipse on the commandline or in your eclipse.ini file that might help: -consolelog - log everything in workspace/.metadata/.log to the console where you launched Eclipse as well -debug - more verbose console output -console - start the Equinox OSGi console to interact with OSGi directly -noexit - when Eclipse closes, keep the OSGi console running until you type 'exit' or hit CTRL-C so you can keep debugging See Where Is My Bundle? for an overview of how to use the OSGi console for diagnosing problems.

Debugging Eclipse Using Eclipse You can also debug an Eclipse instance from another instance through remote debugging: Start the instance to be debugged with "-vmargs -Xdebug -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=8000". You should see a message like "Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8000" Open Run → Debug Configurations... and create a Remote Java Application configuration with connection type "Socket Attach" and connecting to the client at port 8000. Set the project to a bundle project with the right dependencies for the bundles that you are trying to debug. Launch the configuration. The JDWP agent supports other useful arguments, like "suspend=n" so that the process does not suspend. For more details, see Oracle's Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) connection docs.

I just installed Eclipse on my 64-bit system, but it does not start. What is the problem? Make sure that you have downloaded the 64-bit version of Eclipse (it should have x86_64 somewhere in its name) and have installed a 64-bit JVM. Likewise, if you run a 32-bit JVM, then you should use the 32-bit version of Eclipse.

When I start Eclipse it says "Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one.", what should I do? There are a couple of things you can try. Delete the workspace/.metadata/.lock file. Check your running processes to make sure there aren't any remaining Java or Eclipse processes running. When in doubt, restart your computer. :) Try starting Eclipse on a different workspace (from the workspace selection dialog, or by using a command line argument like -data /home/user/tmp-workspace), then switch back to your original workspace.

How do I uninstall a plug-in? You can view your list of installed software by checking your installation details from about dialog. Help > About > Installation Details

I'm having memory, heap, or permgen problems, what can I do? FAQ How do I increase the heap size available to Eclipse? FAQ How do I increase the permgen size available to Eclipse?

Eclipse seems to be hanging on startup. How can I find out why? If none of the solutions outlined in this section reveal the problem, then you can try debugging an Eclipse instance as a debug target from another Eclipse instance. This is surprisingly easy: Start Eclipse in a "new" blank workspace (e.g., C:\TEMP\WS, or /tmp) Create a new Debug configuration: Run -> Debug Configurations; then click on "Eclipse Applications" and select the New Launch Configuration. If you believe it's something about a particular workspace, then set the workspace to your normal workspace. If you believe the hang is caused by a particular plugin, disable the plugin and verify. Launch and then see. Using this approach, you can break with the debugger to see where hangs are occurring. You can also change the selection of plugins that the instance is launched with.

I was working on a project and doing something or other does not work. Where should I start? Try refreshing your projects. Try cleaning your your projects using the menu item Project/Clean to trigger a rebuild. Try closing/reopening your projects. Try restarting Eclipse.

4.2 Where are Eclipse's log files located?

Where are Eclipse's log files located? <workspace>/.metadata/.log You can view this workspace log as a view if you have PDE installed on your computer (which you would if you have downloaded the Eclipse SDK). You can open that view via Window -> Show View -> Other -> PDE Runtime -> Error Log. <eclipse install>/configuration/<sometimestamp>.log <eclipse install>/configuration/org.eclipse.update/install.log

Where are Eclipse preferences stored?

Where are Eclipse preferences stored?

Where are Eclipse preferences stored?

Where are update site bookmarks stored? It is within an XML file called <user_home>/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.2/configuration/org.eclipse.update/bookmarks.xml. Your Eclipse version may vary.