This is a step-by-step tutorial. I made this Tutorial, because I was not happy with the four project folders generated by JBoss Tools 2.0.0 when I select a new Seam EAR project. The work is a bit confusing. If I create a new Seam WAR project I only get two projects (one of them is a test project). I had a lot of trouble with the WAR project. I was not able to not get the EJB3 examples work with it. Never the less the folder structure is different from the Seam-gen generated projects. This tutorial works completely without JBoss Tool. You can use JBoss Tools anyway, it has nice functions do build a RichFaces JSF page, but keep in mind that new generated projects are difficult to handle, since you have to keep an overview of all four projects and the changes you made in each of them.... more »

JBoss Seam gives you a great build support if you want to go with Ant. But what about Maven 2? There doesn’t seem to be a lot of documentation about it. Here’s how I got it running. First of all you need to create a multi-module project. Maven 2 requires to have a POM for every artifact you want to build. What you need to set up is one project (through a directory) per artifact. The book “Better Builds with Maven” describes this procedure very well. After setting it up you should have something similar to this:... more »

Special thanks to my teammate Çağatay Çivici for inspiring me on this one. I will never be able to pronounce his name correctly, but that certainly doesn't stop me from taking one of his good ideas and running with it. ... more »

In this Blog you will see how to add Google-Guice functionality to a Hibernate-Application. In Part I i will introduce a simple Hibernate-Application. In Part II you can see how this Application will be transformed for using Guice.... more »

This is the ant task I’m using to generate POJO and mapping files from a DB Schema (mysql).... more »

Lets take this time in consideration a real life project. Most of the time Ant is used to compile and build java projects. This means generating, compiling and building jar files. For this we are going to define severals tasks. Lets consider the we create a buid.xml file in the directory where sources are located. The sources are put in the subdirectory called src. We also need to include a jar in the classpath while compiling. We are going to create a separate property file to define the location of this file:... more »

Ant is a build tool written in Java, intended to be used for Java build processes. Ant is used for building small and large projects as well. You can use ant not only for automation of building Java projects, but for automating any complicated and repetitive tasks. Ant is using xml files to define tasks that should be run during a process.... more »

Google Guice is a an open source Java framework released by Google under Apache License 2.0. Guice is a light weight Inversion of Control Container. It does what Spring does regarding dependency inversion aspect, without using xml files. Guide uses annotations and requires Java 1.5 or above and follows the Google philosophy of being really easy to use.... more »

Google Guice is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 5 (or later), which is explained here very well.... more »

Warp-persist (now version 1.0) provides a thin layer of integration for injecting and managing persistence using Hibernate, JPA (so far TopLink Essentials, OpenJPA and Hibernate have shown success) or db4objects in Guice-driven applications. It provides support for declarative transactions and units-of-work using a flexible @Transactional annotation.... more »