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J2EE
When I first heard about composite components in JSF 2, I asked "How do I make a date picker that yields a java.util.Date? I was told that can't be done without a custom component and lots of icky code. Not so--it is actually pretty easy. Here are the details."
A few weeks ago, Ed Burns posted a link to a blog on the JSF expert group mailing list, commenting “A nice one, but it doesn't mention JSF 2”. Ever the curmudgeon, I pointed out that it wasn't so nice that the blog's sample code used the JSF API in beans when it wasn't necessary—as does in fact a lot of sample code, even in the official Sun tutorials. Ed's response: “Cay, a blog comment by such an eminent citizen as yourself would certainly be noticed.” So, here is the curmudgeonly eminence's advice on how to stay away from the JSF API.
As I happily wrote about new features of JSF 2.0, my coauthor David Geary kept asking me how to run the examples in Tomcat 6. I kept putting it off—hunting down those JAR files and web.xml fragments is like eating soup with a fork. I finally got around to doing the research and thought that others might benefit from the (unhappy) results, if only to realize that this may be the time for switching to GlassFish.
EJB
In the relentless fight against configuration boilerplate, JSF and Glassfish have taken yet another small step forward. As of Glassfish v3 build 68, you no longer need to declare the faces-servlet in WEB.XML.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping...
