Configure Spring Batch to persist to a database

For anything more than a simplistic application, you will probably want to persist the spring batch job data to a data source. Spring batch uses a set of database tables to store information about the jobs being executed. You will need to create the following tables...

Configuring Seam and Spring Batch

Seam provides jbpm for handling workflows, but doesn’t have anything dedicated so far to the issue of batch processing. While jbpm will handle complex business conditional steps, some steps are repetitive rather than complex and are better suited to a batch...

Configuring Icefaces and JBoss Seam Excel

As in Configuring Icefaces and Seam PDF, when you want to render excel pages in an application that already uses seam and icefaces, you need to use the default view handler for rendering the excel files.  So you need to follow some of the same steps…  Separate...

Configuring Icefaces and Seam PDF

Unfortunately seam-pdf doesn’t play nice with ICEfaces. Specifically, the D2DFaceletViewHandler doesn’t do pdf/email rendering. The workaround for this is to separate the application into ICEFaces (ice: tags) and Non-ICEFaces (h: tags) pages which are the...

Debugging Seam applications

Seam provides two different pages that can be useful for debugging applications.  The Facelets Debug page which shows page-rendering errors, and the Seam Debug page which shows any uncaught application exceptions. Enable the Facelets Debug Page: In web.xml you set...