Jsf 1.2 on j2ee 1.4???

Hello,
Is it possible to run jsf 1.2 (sun ri) on j2ee 1.4??
Thanks in advance,
Julien.

That's not strictly true. If you use something like Facelets, you can run JSF 1.2 under, for example, Tomcat 5, assuming you are running your container under a Java 5 JVM. If I recall correctly, there's a retroweaved version of the 1.2 RI floating around that will allow it to run under JDK 1.4, but I don't have that link handy.

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When I check the logs in the entreprise manager I see the following error:
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Hi Frank,
I don't use /faces/ I use the .faces extension but I don't think that it matters wich servlet mapping you use, does it?
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JSF or UIX = Land of confusion

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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/collateral/papers/9.0.5.0/adfuix_roadmap/adfuix_roadmap.html
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Support for visual editing in 9.0.5
Support for easy databinding in 9.0.5
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http://jsf.iatp.org.ua/
JSF step by step
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myfaces.org
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JavaRanch Big Moose Saloon
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Hello,
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--ken

JavaX

I am trying to write my first EJB Three Entity and Session bean Project.
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I am using the Elvis Meets GlassFish Tutorial by Cay S. Horstmann
(www.horstmann.com/elvis/elvis-meets-glassfish.html) I also read
EJB Three in Action by Panda, Rahman and Lane.
I am getting the error messages
import javax.persistence
cannot find symbol class persistence package javax
and, probably relatedly,
cannot find symbol class Entity Manager
Using docjar.com, I search for javax.persistence
javax.persistence
It points me at
ejb3-persistence-2005-06-11.jar
hibernate-all-2005-06-11.jar
I downloaded the java_ee_sdk-5_05-linux.bin from Sun and installed
Glassfish. Yet I cannot find any jar file with a name like this.
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Here is the program that is generating the problem:
// implementation of interface T
package S;
import E.*;
import javax.ejb.Remote;
import javax.persistence;
@Stateless
public class TI implements T{
@PersistenceContext (unitName="defaultPersistanceUnit")
private EntityManager em;
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s = new S();
s.setName(N);
s.setID(I);
em.persist(s);
public S getS(String I) {
S ReturnThis;
Query q =em.createQuery("SELECT s from S.s where s.id=:id");
q.setParameter("id",I);
Object O;
O = q.getSingleResult();
ReturnThis = (S) O;
return ReturnThis;
Here are the error message from javac:
S/TI.java:5: cannot find symbol
symbol : class persistence
location: package javax
import javax.persistence;
^
S/TI.java:9: cannot find symbol
symbol : class EntityManager
location: class S.TI
private EntityManager em;
^
S/TI.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol: class Stateless
@Stateless
^
S/TI.java:8: cannot find symbol
symbol : class PersistenceContext
location: class S.TI
@PersistenceContext (unitName="defaultPersistanceUnit")
^
S/TI.java:20: cannot find symbol
symbol : class Query
location: class S.TI
Query q =em.createQuery("SELECT s from S.s where s.id=:id");
^
5 errors
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Dr. Laurence Leff Western Illinois University, Macomb IL 61455 ||(309) 298-1315
Stipes 447 Assoc. Prof. of Computer Sci. Pager: 309-367-0787 FAX: 309-298-2302

Docjar.com listed the following file for javax.persistence:
ejb-persistence-2005-06-11.jar
I downloaded same and included in my class path. It does not help.
I also tried
import javax.persistence.EntityManager
with the idea of importing each of
the individual components of the package I needed.
That did not help, either.
Dr. Laurence Leff Western Illinois University, Macomb IL 61455 ||(309) 298-1315
Stipes 447 Assoc. Prof. of Computer Sci. Pager: 309-367-0787 FAX: 309-298-2302

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I am having trouble getting my dbcapture schema for inclusion in the
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According to the J2EE 1.4 application Server, Developer's Guide,
November 2003 (p82) , I need to run a command like:
capture-schema -dburl jdbc:pointbase:server://localhost:9092/sample
-username public -password public -drive com.pointbase.jdbc.jdbcUniversalDriver
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file.
When I do that command, I get the following error message
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using password: public
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Dr. Laurence Leff, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Western Illinois University, 1 University Circle, Macomb IL 61455
Pager 309 367 0787 Fax 309 298 2302

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You can use all the j2se components in a j2ee
application. But using the Swing controls wouldnt
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ram.thanks ram.
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I still get the same error. I would be interested to
know why you believe including these jars will solve
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like it is shown in deployment-guide from sun.
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perhaps this problem is related to the weblogic-issue
enter
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an other startup-problem happend that to me,
was that i must delete a folder in tomcat.
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but an old version of my application was still
IN $TOMCAT/work/Catalina/localhost
i remove my application from that folder
and a restart solved my problems.
Here is what I found about the FactoryFinder class as
implement by WebSphere.
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algorithm for all factory objects specified in the
JavaServer Faces APIs. For a given factory class name,
a corresponding implementation class is searched for
based on the following algorithm:
1) If there is a system property whose name matches
the name of the desired factory class, its value is
assumed to be the name of the factory implementation
class to use.
2) If a faces.properties file is visible as a resource
to the web application class loader for the calling
application, and this properties file contains
property whose name matches the name of the desired
factory class, its value is assumed to be the name of
the factory implementation class to use.
3) If a META-INF/services/{factory-class-name}
resource is visible to the web application class
loader for the calling application (typically as a
result of being present in the manifest of a JAR
file), its first line is read and assumed to be the
name of the factory implementation class to use.
Once the name of the factory implementation class is
located, the web application class loader for the
calling application is requested to load this class,
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created. A side effect of this rule is that each web
application will receive its own instance of each
factory class, whether the JavaServer Faces
implementation is included within the web application
or is made visible through the container's facilities
for shared libraries.
I do not have a factory implementation class specified
at any of these levels. Is there a standard
faces.properties file the will solve my problem?

JSF 1.2 on a J2EE 1.4 server ?

Is there anyone out there who is running a JSF 1.2 webapp on a J2EE 1.4 server ? If so , what did you need to do ?

You can't.

It looks Oracle Form/Applet die hard versus J2EE Servlet/JSP/JSF & AJAX

I left the form forum for a while and am busy with transfering our Oracle web forms app to Struts based J2EE application (just because the Oracle EE AS is the moving cause, it's out of my control.). After a year or so on J2EE which I enjoyed the fresh OO coding while keep enhancing Oracle webform app in production, I have some thought on Applet vs J2EE JSP/JSF plus AJAX.
1) JSP itself is hard to avoid the full screen refreshing even though user just does partial changes ,e.g., lists, on the screen, it has to use AJAX to do the tricks. While partial refreshing in applet is natural default behavior.
2) Forms is really an RAD, while J2EE's IDEs does help a bit(IBM's Websphere v6 even called iRAD) which takes way longer programming time compared to Forms. One IBM's article says it trys to win the Oracle Forms developers by giving the familiar graphical way of drag/drop GUI, so IBM recognizes the RAD coding power of Oracle Forms. So, IBM promotes the RAD similar to Oracle Forms.
3) GUI/business rules related validation: Applet offered a great advantage over JSP/ even JSF which to avoid the full screen refresh, AJAX/JavaScript is used heavily. User friendly interaction of applet is way better than J2EE.
4) Browser's back/refresh buttons also are headache to J2EE, expecially we need to support IE and Firefox. Applet basically is not bothered by these buttons.
Recently, I read techi news said that the new chips will make the network transfer speed 10 time faster than now-even the cell phone transfer the image will be way faster. Then I predict the applet, just like IBM's mainframe, will see its Spring again, not like now in its winter. Especially the Oracle Forms makes coding easier than pure applet coding.
Oracle folks, kepp beefing up the Oracle Forms, don't just pay attention to JDev. J2EE IDE, most of all, remove the Oracle EE ASxx block, be open. Oracle EE ASxx is really not a pretty baby, even though so Oracle thinks it is.

1) Why we are transfering your Oracle web forms app to Struts based J2EE application?
Since our corporate is IBM world-DB2/UDB, WebSphere AS (WAS) etc. It only allows Oracle Forms/reports servers to be compatible with the infrastructure. It does not allow to purchase another EE app server(espeically LDAP). We could not upgrade our forms/reports6i to 9i or 10g.
2.Therefore the Oracle EE AS is the moving cause, it's out of my control because I did my best to talk to Oracle sales, but no avail. I am glad that I got a good chance to beef up my J2EE Struts skills.
If extract out the forms/report9i/10g engines from the Oracle EE AS 9i/10g, (don't attempt to bundle sell the EE AS to customers-regardless of the shrinked 9.0.4 forms/reports services version, it's still another EE AS) and make them compatible with other ASs(espcially the LDAP), then Oracle Forms will have more customers.

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