In this part (4) of the tutorial we will correct the bugs inherent in version 2.2 of Seam-gen and we will add some code to spice up our blog CMS. First of all, our PostEdit.seam page is not working at all as it is. We shall fix this: Open PostEdit.xhtml from the WebContent folder and find the <rich:tabPanel switchType=”ajax”> block. This is what’s causing the problem, because it has more than one tab – one …
In this part III of the tutorial, we’ll build the entity classes from the database we created in Part I and configure the Seam project we created in Part II so as to make it fully compatible with Apache Tomcat. Creating The Model Layer We’ll use Hibernate‘s reverse engineering tool (hbm2java) embedded in Seam-gen to create the entity classes from the database we created in part 1. Right-click the project blog in project explorer and …
In part I of the tutorial, I provided the instructions about the development environment and how to create the blog’s database. In this part II, using Eclipse’s JBoss tools plugin, we’ll create and configure the JBoss Seam web project and prepare it for full Tomcat-compatibilty and for the creation the basic CRUD (create, read, update and delete) functionality of entities which will be reverse engineered from the database using hbm2java embedded in Seam-gen whose GUI version comes built-in …
When it comes to developing web applications using Java, writing all the code from scratch has its advantages if you’re trying to master a new technology, but for real life web applications, you have to go for a framework as many expert developers would agree. Otherwise you risk a great deal of failure because of having allocated too much time and too many resources by re-inventing the wheels. There are some hardliners who still argue why …