In recent performance tuning of some EJBQL search queries, I’ve had a lot of discussions with other developers on database pagination. There are some definite nuances that you have to be aware of when using Hibernate’s pagination feature, so ...

It seems common for developers to look for faults in established technologies when an issue is encountered.  As a developer struggling to learn an unfamiliar technology, it is easy to make mistakes.  These mistakes lead to frustration which, in turn, can ...

I keep reading discussions regarding the performance of Seam applications. These discussions are generally centered around the performance overhead of the interception techniques used by Seam. While this is definitely a valid issue in certain scenarios,...

Boook Title JBoss RichFaces 3.3 "Enchance your JSF web applications using powerful Ajax components" by Demetrio Filocamo Packt Publishing, November 2009 Introduction  JavaServer Faces has been around for several years now and is an establishe...

Overview Unit testing is a widely accepted practice in most development shops in this day and age, especially with the advent of the tool JUnit.  JUnit was so widely effective and used early on that it has been included in the default distribution of ecl...

OverviewOne of the less commonly used mappings in JPA and Hiberate is the @OneToOne mapping with a shared primary key. Conceptually this type of mapping is simple to understand. However, recently I tried to implement this relationship between two object...