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Archive for January, 2010

Exposing Functionality using Web Services and JEE

January 7th, 2010 by Simon Zambrovski

Abstract

About two years ago, I published an article about Exposing the Functionality implemented in Stateless Session Beans (EJB 2.1) using Web Services. J2EE 1.4 times are over and the new version of the Java Enterprise framework, called Java Enterprise Edition 5 (JavaEE 5, or simply JEE) has emerged. In this article the same business scenario is repeated in the new framework.

Requirements

Before we dive into code examples, some software is required. The good news about the software is, that it also evolved over time. Here is what we use:

  • Sun’s Java 6 SDK
  • JBoss AS 5.1.0 GA for JDK6
  • Eclipse Galileo 3.5.1 for JEE development

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Configuring JBoss Datasource for Firebird DB

January 4th, 2010 by shuron

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Accessing a relational database system from Java is a basic step required for many applications. The JEE architecture defines a standard for gaining this access, calls Java Connector Architecture (JCA). This article is a short HOWTO of configuring JCA-compliant datasource to a Firebird 2.x RDBMs using JBoss AS 5.1.0 as example. This tutorial is based on a Windows installation, but can be easily ported to Linux, or other OS.

For the configuration of the datasource two steps are required:

  • Deployment of the Firebird RAR resource adapter (jaybird-*.rar)
  • Creation of the firebird-ds.xml configuration

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