Maven is a powerful yet complex tool. When I started learning Maven, the first obstacle was, of course, its complexity. The second, was the lack of documentation that can get me off the ground quickly. This tutorial is an attempt to create a pragmatic guide that aims to get you familiar with Maven in the quickest way possible. The main theme is to get you on some hands on experience to start out and lead you through the creation of a simple Java EE project as quickly as possible. Instead of trying to give you a good read, I try to get you on the journey right away. The topics are roughly ordered by the logical sequence but you can jump around in any way...

Syntax highlighted XML schema for JSF 2.0 Application Configuration Resource File ( faces-config.xml ). Almost 3000 lines! <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsd:sch...

Step 1: Repackage a web app as EAR A Java EE application is a multimodule Maven project. At the very least you'll need to package a WAR and an EAR. To get started, I'll simply re-package the simple webapp as an EAR. Create a directory named javaee-app Copy the webapp from here to javaee-app . Rename struts1app to webapp . Create pom.xml under javaee-app : <project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>... Create a directory named ear under javaee-app . Create pom.xml under ear : <project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>... Modify pom.xml in the webapp directory so that it looks like this: <project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> ... Build with " mvn package " in the javaee-app directory. You can see that ear-1.0.ear is successfully generated in javaee-app/ear/target . Maven successfully resolves dependencies between the sub-projects....

These are the steps to create a JBoss 5.1.0 configuration with Tomcat from the built-in minimal configuration. Change directory to $JBOSS_HOME/server . Make a copy of the minimal configuration. cp -R minimal tomcatonly Copy bindingservice.beans from the default configuration. cp -R default/conf/bindingservice.beans tomcatonly... Copy login-config.xml from the default configuration. cp default/conf/login-config.xml tomcatonly/conf/ Edit tomcatonly/conf/jboss-service.xml : Add jars from the common/lib directory: <!-- Load all jars from the JBOSS_DIST/serv... Add the JAAS security manager section (copy from the default profile, and yes, JBoss tomcat can't live without the JBoss JAAS manager). <!-- JAAS security manager and realm mappin... Copy the Tomcat (JBoss web) deployer from the default configuration. cp -R default/deployers/jbossweb.deployer tomcaton... Copy metadata-deployer-jboss-beans.xml and security-deployer-jboss-beans.xml from the default profile. cp default/deployers/metadata-deployer-jboss-b... Copy...

The tags <c:import> The <c:import> tag imports the contents of a URL and expose that in one of three ways: Import contents from a URL and write it out to the page (url may be relative or absolute): <c:import url="theUrl" /> Import contents from a URL and save it to a scoped variable string named by the var attribute. Use the scope attribute to define the scope of the exported variable. <c:import url="theUrl" var="importTest" scope="ses... Import a URL and expose to a Reader object named by the varReader attribute. The scope attribute does not apply. The varReader scoped variable can only be accessed within the body of <c:import> . <c:import url="theUrl" varReader="theReader"/> <c:url> The <c:url> tag constructs a URL and writes it out to the...

In this note I'll show you how to create and package a JSP custom tag. The purpose of this tag is to display a random splash image for a home page, among a set of images. We should be able to add or delete candidate splash images from the WAR archive without the need to change the JSP. This is the intended use of the tag: <%@ taglib uri="http://custom.tag.com/demo" prefix... In the above example you provide a set of images named splash*.png (e.g., splash1.png, spalsh2.png, ...), and the tag will pick a random one to display when the JSP is rendered. Let's get started. I'll use Maven for this purpose. Create the standard Maven directory structure ./pom.xml ./src ./src/main ./src/main/jav... pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... SplashTag.java package tagdemo; import java.util.ArrayList......

You can use the Maven archetype plugin to quickly start a new Maven project from scratch: C:\work\maven>mvn archetype:generate [INFO] S...

It's easiest to use the archetype plugin to start a new Maven project. I'll use struts 1 as example since it's not in the built-in archetypes for archetype:generate . Generate a simple webapp with archetype:generate : C:\work\maven>mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeAr... It generates a directory structure like this: struts1app struts1app/pom.xml struts1app/src... with a simple POM: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... Create settings.xml in $HOME/.m2 , add Java.net repository for Java EE dependencies: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <setting... Add Java EE and Struts dependencies in pom.xml . Note that the Java EE dependency has scope provided , meaning that the web app container provides the jars, therefore we don't need to bundle them with our war fie. <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... Create a directory named java under main , create the Struts form and...

This procedure works for Oracle application server 10.1.3.1, SOA suite. But should be applicable for standalone OC4J or JDeveloper installations with minor modifications. $ORACLE_HOME is the home directory for Oracle app server. $JDEV_HOME is the home directory for JDeveloper. 1. Change directory to $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee , mkdir lib 2. Copy xmlparserv2.jar from $JDEV_HOME to $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/lib . 3. Copy ocj.jar and jdev_remote.jar from $JDEV_HOME/jdev/lib to $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/lib . 4. Edit global-web-application.xml under your OC4J instance's config directory. Change the development attribute to true . <orion-web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/... 5. Add the following to the servlet section of global-web-application.xml : <servlet> <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-na... 6. Edit $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/conf/opmn.xml , add -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=4000 to start-parameters/java-options : <process-type id="MYOC4J" module-id="OC4J" status=... 7. In Eclipse, open to port 4000 for remote debugging.

I had this problem when deploying a J2EE application into Oracle app server. It worked fine with an OC4J container configured in the default group. But it failed to start with an OC4J container I created. Here's a sample stack trace of the initialization exception: 07/08/14 13:32:46.34 10.1.3.3.0 Started 07/08/1... The problem was, the struts ActionServlet loads commons logging LogFactory, the log factory somehow knows that it needs log4j, but it can't load log4j since it's loaded by a different class loader. The solution for Oracle is to omit commons logging from the list of inherited libraries. Add this to META-INF/orion-application.xml solves the problem: <imported-shared-libraries> <remove-inhe... Actually, this is a quite common problem with commons-logging. If you search the web, you'll find that people have...

If you use quartz or the plain old java.util.Timer class to schedule jobs in an OC4J container, you need to enable the -userThreads switch with the OC4J container. This is the relevant section in $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/conf/opmn.xml : <process-type id="INST1" module-id="OC4J" status="... Or, you can add it through the Oracle em console. Go to the OC4J container, click "Administration" tab, then "Server Properties". Add "-userThreads" to "Start-parameters: OC4J Options". Debu Panda has written a good article on using quartz in the Oracle environment: Using Quartz Enterprise Scheduler in J2EE