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Introduction
This section's aim is to help track the changes made during the writing
of this article.
This article is work in progress. Any changes made to
the documents are listed here.
As the article is developed, the database design is fluid. Tables are
modified, or new tables added.
April 2006
The latest EJB and JSF API's are currently in draft form. Some software
components are sometimes found to support an older version of an API
specification. New versions of software will inevitably be released,
which uses a newer API specification. Sometimes this also requires the
example projects to be updated.
The way persisence.xml is coded has changed in the
newer JBoss release, to keep track of the JEE spec. Also, the annotations
for generated primary keys has been updated in JBoss. The version
of JBoss used up to now was 4.0.3sp1. After some research and talking
to developers, it was decided to move to JBoss 4.0.4RC1. This
version supports the latest persistence.xml syntax,
and also the latest way of annotating generated primary keys in
EJB3 entities.
When moving to a new version of JBoss, it is important
to copy the JDBC driver class for MySQL to the new installation's
server/default/lib folder. The shoestringDS.xml datasource
file is copied to server/default/deploy.
In Eclipse, creating a new Debug configuration automatically
generates new JBoss EJB3 libraries. The various projects that are
going to use the new release of JBoss, need to use the new library.
The user library for JSF should be updated to use the
jar files in the fresh installation of JBoss.
The source in Test Part 2 has been updated to reflect
the new version of JBoss: persistence.xml
has been updated to use persistence units. The names used to lookup
EJB's have been updated in the web application code.
The database table Person has been updated: the
old primary key "email" is now a unique index, a primary key called
id was added (generated integer key). A new table called Address
has been added.
The registration page and supporting code has been
added. This page allows a user to enter their details, upon saving
the page, the details are stored in the database.
There is no longer an issue with starting JBoss
on an IP v6 based Linux PC.
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