Encrypting the communication between client and server provides improved security and privacy protection for your system. This can be an important requirement by the customer, especially if client or server need to work in an unprotected network. This article shows you how to setup SSL encrypted EJB calls in JBoss AS 7.
Since JAXB is part of the JDK, it is one of the most often used frameworks to process XML documents. It provides a comfortable way to retrieve and store data from XML documents to Java classes. As nearly every Java developer has already used JAXB, I will not explain the different JAXB annotations. Instead I…
JPA provides 2 standard mappings for enums, but both have serious downsides. Using the @Enumerated annotation, you can use EnumType.ORDINAL or EnumType.STRING to map the enum value to its database representation. The ordinal of an Enum depends on the ordering of its values and can create problems if we need to add new ones. The…
JPA 2.1 added a list of nice features to the specification. One of them is the support for bulk update and delete operations in the Criteria API. We will have a look at the new CriteriaUpdate and CriteriaDelete classes in this article. If you like to learn more about the other features added in JPA 2.1, have…
Wildfly 8.0.0.Beta1 Yesterday, the Wildfly team released Wildfly 8.0.0.Beta1! The server is available at the Wildfly download page. If you want to read a detailed description of all changes, check the official release notes. What’s new? Java EE 7 APIs This is the first Wildfly version which implements all user facing EE7 APIs. This includes…