With the release of PrimeFaces 7.0 in March 2019, PrimeTek team introduced over 500 improvements featuring new components, new modern free themes, font icons, better performance various enhancements on accessibility and security. The new modern free themes were the first thing I noticed while browsing through the PrimeFaces component showcase page especially the Nova-Light theme.…
Messaging is a key concept for distributed enterprise applications. There are a lot of use cases, where you don’t want or need a sync response you get with e.g. a REST call and can use async messaging: IoT (sensor data), event streaming, data duplication, etc. With the hype of Kafka and other highly-distributed messaging solutions,…
In my latest blog post, I demonstrated a solution for up- and downloading files with Jersey (JAX-RS 2.1) on Payara. As WildFly does not rely on Jersey as the JAX-RS reference implementation and is using RESTEasy instead, I’ll show you a quick example for up- and downloading files with RESTEasy on WildFly. Setting up the…
In one of my last blog post, I showed you how to upload and download files with React and Spring Boot. Today I want to give you a quickstart example on how to achieve the same with Java EE and Web Components (standards ftw!). In this blog post, I’ll be using Java 8, Java EE…
As a Java/Jakarta EE developer, we can rely on the javax standards to work on every certified application server in the same way. When it comes to managing the application server, every vendor has a different and proprietary API for managing its resources. To use a different application server you first have to get comfortable…
The productivity of your developers is crucial for the success of your project. Without fast deployments and short feedback-cycles about a new feature, you lose a lot of time just “idling”. As a Java/Jakarta EE developer, you will most likely have a local installation for the target application server and deploy the application several times…
Generating documents for e.g. invoices or reports is a central use case for enterprise applications. As a Java developer, you have a wide range of possible libraries to manipulate and create Word, Excel or PDF documents. To help you choose the right library, I going to present you a running example for generating PDF documents with…
Bootstrapping a new JSF can be quite cumbersome if you are new to Java EE. Even after weeks of training, I had to look up the anatomy of the or the correct folder structure. As the JSF technology is still a valid and reasoned choice for frontend development in enterprises, I’ve created a simple Maven archetype…
Manually creating a new Java EE Maven project can be quite cumbersome. Creating all required folders and files for a simple JAX-RS endpoint with a database access was quite error-prone in the past for me. I constantly mixed up WEB-INF and META-INF with its files and was tired of manually creating the project structure. The bootstrapping of a…