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Created by Fang on April 16, 2012 12:58:35
Last update: April 16, 2012 12:58:35
To implement a JSP custom tag with dynamic attributes (for example, to pass-thru arbitrary attributes not handled by the JSP tag):
Set the dynamic-attributes element to true in the TLD:
<tag>
<name>mark</name>
<tag-class>c...
The tag handler must implement javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.DynamicAttributes :
package com.example.jsp;
import java.io.*;
...
Created by Fang on March 30, 2012 10:07:25
Last update: March 30, 2012 10:09:08
After a user resets a password, I want to force the user to change the password before she gets access to secured content. This is usually done with a servlet filter. But with Spring MVC, you can also use a HandlerInterceptor . According to Spring JavaDoc: HandlerInterceptor is basically similar to a Servlet 2.3 Filter, but in contrast to the latter it just allows custom pre-processing with the option of prohibiting the execution of the handler itself, and custom post-processing. Filters are more powerful, for example they allow for exchanging the request and response objects that are handed down the chain. Note that a filter gets configured in web.xml, a HandlerInterceptor in the application context. As a basic guideline, fine-grained handler-related preprocessing tasks are candidates...
Created by zhidao on January 23, 2012 15:00:19
Last update: January 23, 2012 15:00:19
The domain object is annotated @Entity , but Java runtime complains that it's not an entity class.
Cause: : class not listed in persistence.xml , or persistence.xml misplaced, or multiple persistence.xml files existed.
Created by zhidao on January 23, 2012 14:58:58
Last update: January 23, 2012 14:58:58
This exception occurs when the Java object attribute is of type String, while the database column is of type CHAR(n), and hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto is validate in persistence.xml .
There are two solutions:
Add columnDefinition to the @Column annotation:
@Column(name = “STATE_CODE”, columnDefinition = “c...
Remove hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto from persistence.xml .
Created by Fang on December 06, 2011 19:03:25
Last update: December 07, 2011 08:54:11
Our custom tag, as implemented in the previous note , is broken when a template is used.
Create a template file ( home-template.xhtml ):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
and a test page that uses it ( home.xhtml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ui:comp...
Then request the page with URL: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/home.jsf?name=Jack .
You'll find that our hello tag works inside ui:repeat but fails to get the value defined by ui:param ! What's the problem? Our hello tag implementation evaluated the EL with the wrong EL context!
This is the corrected implementation:
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Created by Fang on November 10, 2011 13:19:13
Last update: December 01, 2011 19:10:43
You can add custom implicit variables to JSF pages by using a custom EL resolver, in two simple steps: Write an ELResolver class to resolve the variable Add the ELResolver to faces-config.xml Starting from the Maven Hello World example: Add faces API and EL dependencies to pom.xml :
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>o... Add a simple greeter class ( src/main/java/com/example/Greeter.java ): package com.example; public class Greeter {... Add our custom EL resolver ( src/main/java/com/example/ELResolver.java ): package com.example; import java.util.Itera... Add the custom EL resolver to src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-c... Build JAR with mvn package Drop the JAR into WEB-INF/lib of a webapp and test the new EL with: <h:outputText value="#{Greeter.sayHi('Mike')}"/> Fixed: the setValue method used to throw an exception, which is wrong. @Override public void setValue(ELContext ctx, O......
Created by Fang on November 22, 2011 10:40:16
Last update: November 22, 2011 10:40:16
This is an example that uses tag handler, UI component and renderer together to support a custom taglib. The main purpose is to show how these components play together.
The tag renders
<ui:param name="extra" value="el interpreted"/>
...
as
<h3>my:foreach</h3>
<ul class="css class" extra...
These are the files:
The tag handler ( src/main/java/com/example/ForeachTagHandler.java ):
package com.example;
import java.util.Map;
...
The UI component ( src/main/java/com/example/UIForeach.java ):
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
The renderer ( src/main/java/com/example/ForeachRenderer.java ):
package com.example;
import java.io.IOExcep...
Faces config ( src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-c...
Taglib config ( src/main/resources/META-INF/foreach.taglib.xml ):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<facelet...
Created by Fang on November 21, 2011 15:57:49
Last update: November 22, 2011 09:51:26
The improved custom taglib works with existing facelet ui taglibs. For example:
<ui:param name="theName" value="John"/> <my:hel... produces the expected output. However, a problem exists with the ui:repeat tag: <h3>With ui:repeat</h3> <ui:repeat var="theName... When tested with a URL like: http://localhost:8080/facelet-demo/?name=Zack&name... the raw EL prints out the correct names, but my custom tag substitutes empty string for theName2 ! In theory, the response is rendered in the Render Response phase, way after the Apply Request Values phase, actual values should be available to EL. The answer to this anomaly turned out to be very deep ! Yes, right there in the code! I would consider this a bug in facelets implementation, but the JSF spec did not tell what the expected behavior should be. In my custom...
Created by Fang on November 08, 2011 20:55:00
Last update: November 21, 2011 18:19:44
In the simple taglib example , I used a tag handler class to implement a taglib. This is an example to implement a taglib with a UI component. The purpose is to use a custom tag to split a string and print each part in a separate paragraph, i.e., print
<p>john</p> <p>steve</p> <p>mike</p> with custom tag <my:foreach> : <my:foreach var="who" value="john steve mike"> ... These are the files: pom.xml <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... src/main/java/com/example/UIForeash.java : package com.example; import java.io.IOExcep... src/main/resources/META-INF/faces-config.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <faces-c... src/main/resources/META-INF/foreach.taglib.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <facelet... How to use: Put the JAR file generated by the above project in the WEB-INF/lib folder of the web app. If the web app is a Maven project, just add the taglib project as a dependency:...
Created by Fang on November 12, 2011 21:03:03
Last update: November 12, 2011 21:03:03
Experts may disagree but I found it absolutely stunning that JSF EL does not provide an operator for string concatenation. The Java "+" operator is there for the take. Java, which is a strongly typed compiled language, overloads the "+" operator in such a way that any object can be concatenated with a string. But JSF EL, which definitely isn't as strongly typed as Java, restricts the "+" operator to numerical values only! Of course, experts may argue that the "+" operator overloading is a huge design flaw of the Java language. But even so, JSF EL is not the right place to fix it! In some cases, a concatenation operator isn't needed, for example:
<ui:repeat var="tab" value="#{tabs}"> <img ... But in case the concatenated...
