itcrowd-domain-findbugs 1.0.0

We're tired for manual checking javax.validation annotations against entity's persistent properties. For all of you who feel the same we bring itcrowd-domain-findbugs.

POM Sorter 1.0.6 is out

We've fixed quite serious issue: tag attributes are now maintained.

POM Sorter 1.0.5 is out

We've repackaged the files to "pl.itcrowd", added icons and default sorting mode for "dependencies".

Mocking FindBugs

In previous post on writing FindBugs plugin I've said it is very immune to testing. Since today it's different.

Organizing JCMA Workshop - dos and donts

We've recently organized and lead Java Coder's Modern Arsenal Workshop. It was our first such event. We've commited several mistakes and had some cool ideas, all making valuable lesson. We want to share our experience with you.

Writing FindBugs plugin

Ever needed some custom checks in FindBugs? See how to write your own detectors.

JSF Component must not be script

Recently we needed form to create JSF composite component that would bind custom Ajax event handler to a form. We simply made it output <script id="xxx">...</script>. And it was mistake!

@Observes inheritance

Weld-core:1.1.8.Final fixed important issue (WELD-1111) concerning inheritance of member-level metadata for generic types. Now we can have parametrized super classes with @Observes methods!

Contest for new company page design

We are happy to announce that contest for new design of our company page has finished!

POM Sorter 1.0.2 is out

This release let's you configure how each tag's contents will be sorted.

Downloads: http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin?pr=idea&pluginId=7084

POM Sorter IntelliJ Idea plugin

Do you like Rearranger plugin for IntelliJ Idea, the one that helps you sort members of Java classes? Don't you miss such great functionality for Maven project descriptor? We've got something for you. The Pom Sorter plugin.

Reliable mail delivery in Seam

If you need to send emails form your application then there is nice seam-mail, a CDI extension. However frequently you need to assure that some email gets delivered. Let's consider registration process. User fills in their email and new password, the application should then send him mail with activation code. What if the mail server is currently down or for some other reason the mail cannot be delivered at the moment?

Mock conversation

Mock-contexts-extension allows you to turn conversation and view scopes on for your Arquillian tests. However the Conversation implementation in Weld is so tightly bound to Weld that you need to create mock alternative for it.

seam3-persistence-framework 1.0.2 is out

We've fixed problems with DynEntityQuery not being refreshed when dynamic parameter value change. Artifacts are available at: http://artifactory.it-crowd.com.pl/repo

Mock FacesContext in Arquillian

Recently I wanted to test my backing beans for JSF views. Unfortunately the EntityQuery (from seam3-persistence-framework) is very tightly bound to JSF api, particularly it depends on FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getELContext(). The problem is that the tests are not associated with JSF requests, so FacesContext.getCurrentInstance() returns null.

I decided to extend mock-contexts-extension to help mocking FacesContext.

Arquillian meets JRebel

Writing tests with Arquillian is so cool. Our tests are run in container, we can inject various artifacts like EJBs, JMS queues, CDI beans and more into our tests.
But the turnaround for big deployments is too big. Even for smaller ones, if you for example use Seam3 or Hibernate it takes some seconds to redeploy. And those seconds add up.

But I've got good news for you!

AS7 Seam2 LoggingFilter

Seam2 allows us to add user name to each server log entry triggered by that user. This is described id "Identity Logging" chapter. We only need to enable logging-filter in components.xml and add %X{username} to log pattern.

But what if we want more, like IP ?

Mock contexts for Arquillian

Do you have @ViewScoped or @ConversationScoped annotated beans that you want to test with Arquillian?

Do you get "WELD-001303 No active contexts for scope type javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped"?

Well now you get mock-contexts-extension to the rescue.

CDK Guide - Writing schedule component

The goal

There is a lot of good introductory tutorials on writing JSF components based on RichFaces and using CDK. However they cover very simple cases and developers have hard times figuring out how to tackle some more advanced scenarios which are easily achievable in RichFaces.

Seam3-persistence-framework comes to town

Seam2 had great "framework-in-framework" set of classes to speed up CRUD development. I'm talking about EntityHome and EntityQuery. If you miss that stuff a lot in Seam3, don't you worry, cause IT Crowd has migrated EntityHomes and such successfully to seam3 and we use it in production.