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      • 15. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
        deanhiller2000

        Arbi Sookazian,
          thanks for shedding more light on the merge.....it is no wonder I love hibernates previous saveOrUpdate then as that is what I really want to do...I could care less about reattaching an entity to the conversation. 

        • 16. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
          kragoth

          Arbi Sookazian wrote on Nov 11, 2009 01:07:


          Don't forget (ab)use of the rendered attribute in JSF tags.  DAllen covers this here:

          http://www.jsfcentral.com/articles/speed_up_your_jsf_app_1.html


          This is a very important one if you are trying to speed up your app. His research was quite eye opening. I am now much more careful about what I put in my rendered attributes!

          • 17. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
            deanhiller2000

            adding one more in here.  DO DO DO Run these tests before going to production


            Test 1:
            1. startup your server connected to database(do not hit a single web page yet!!!!)
            2. pull the ehternet cable between db and server
            3. hit a web page(many configurations end up waiting infinitely for db to respond)


            Test 2: (fails in oracle, passes in postgres)
            1. startup your server connected to database
            2. login and go to some page that can be refreshed without needing the database(and preferably with input)
            3. crash the database with kill -9
            4. refresh the page(it should work)
            5. enter data into the page and submit(it should go to your error.xhtml page)


            On #5 Oracle ends up in infinite redirect. 


            BIG NOTE: On Test 2, if you use go to the login page after db is down and login, seam will only refresh the login page with Transaction failed even though I would prefer it to also go to errorDbDown.xhtml like my other pages...it is quite weird(seam 2.2.0.GA)


            LASTLY, even though postgres worked fine on crashing, ONE MORE test everyone should run is this


            Test 3.
            1. After test 2, bring back up the database
            2. make sure your website is still working


            I have been having trouble with Test 3 in postgres/tomcat config but i thinkt that may be the connection pool is hibernates even though I keep trying to swap to c3p0 and failing.


            later,
            Dean



            • 18. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
              deanhiller2000

              adding one more in here.  DO DO DO Run these tests before going to production


              Test 1:
              1. startup your server connected to database(do not hit a single web page yet!!!!)
              2. pull the ehternet cable between db and server
              3. hit a web page(many configurations end up waiting infinitely for db to respond)


              Test 2: (fails in oracle, passes in postgres)
              1. startup your server connected to database
              2. login and go to some page that can be refreshed without needing the database(and preferably with input)
              3. crash the database with kill -9
              4. refresh the page(it should work)
              5. enter data into the page and submit(it should go to your error.xhtml page)


              On #5 Oracle ends up in infinite redirect. 


              BIG NOTE: On Test 2, if you use go to the login page after db is down and login, seam will only refresh the login page with Transaction failed even though I would prefer it to also go to errorDbDown.xhtml like my other pages...it is quite weird(seam 2.2.0.GA)


              LASTLY, even though postgres worked fine on crashing, ONE MORE test everyone should run is this


              Test 3.
              1. After test 2, bring back up the database
              2. make sure your website is still working


              I have been having trouble with Test 3 in postgres/tomcat config but i thinkt that may be the connection pool is hibernates even though I keep trying to swap to c3p0 and failing.


              later,
              Dean



              • 19. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                shane.bryzak

                As per popular request, I've made this a sticky.

                • 20. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                  asookazian

                  new article on dzone: Event-Driven MVC with JSF and JBoss Seam - Common Pitfalls: http://java.dzone.com/articles/event-driven-mvc-jsf-and-jboss


                  I don't necessarily agree with all the author's points in the above dzone article.


                  e.g. Scenario 1 - Placing controller initiation code in the facelets.  I don't see anything wrong with this if you do it the right way.  An example of the right way is showing h:commandButton which invokes an init() method and when the page reRenders, the button is not rendered.


                  e.g. Scenario 2 - Placing data retrieval methods in the facelets.  What's wrong with this in the situation of populating a rich:dataTable via @DataModel List<T>?  I guess this scenario is showing the problem with data retrieval (i.e. hitting the db) via rendered attribute.  This actually is a practice or pattern to avoid generally in JSF apps.

                  • 21. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                    asookazian

                    Not sure if this is already posted but be careful the names of variables you use when you inject an EJB:


                    http://seamframework.org/Community/EJBAndInjection#comment123992


                    inject using interface name then Seam component name.


                    Example:


                    @Name("smartComponent")
                    @Stateless
                    public class SmartBean implements ISmart {
                    ...
                    }



                    inject SmartBean into DumbBean:


                    @Name("dumbComponent")
                    @Stateless
                    public class DumbBean implements IDumb {
                        @In
                        private ISmart smartComponent;
                    }



                    • 22. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                      sej

                      Francisco Peredo wrote:


                      6). Do not validate simple stuff (numeric fields, regular expressions, dates, simple comparisions between fields, etc) using seam/jsf/richfaces validation, it is very slow, and your users will not like it, use jQuery, only use seam/jsf/richfaces validation for complex business logic stuff.


                      Are you talking only about a4j validation that occurs when tabbing off an input tag, or are you also including validation that occurs when clicking the submit button?

                      • 23. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                        cash1981

                        Remember that if you have a component and you are using @Roles and you have listeners on that component, it will be called N + 1 (N being roles and 1 being @Name) times according to how many @Role names you use.


                        @Name("systemlogListener")
                        @Transactional
                        @Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
                        @Role(name="esbLogListener", scope=ScopeType.EVENT )
                        public class SystemlogListener implements Serializable {
                        
                        @Observer("storeSystemlog")
                            public void saveSystemlog(String description, String category, String username, String org) {
                                 //Save some stuff
                            }
                        }



                        Then you call the event.



                        Events.instance().raiseEvent("storeSystemlog");
                        //This will now get called twice(!) because @Role will create a new component



                        • 24. Re: 15 gotchas in seam

                          Steve Jagels wrote on Apr 14, 2010 00:02:


                          Are you talking only about a4j validation that occurs when tabbing off an input tag, or are you also including validation that occurs when clicking the submit button?


                          Both, if you are only validating numeric fields, regular expressions, dates, simple comparisions between fields, etc using a4j:validation will result in a this takes too much time perception from your user, if you think it, it makes sense: why travel all the way to the server to know if ABC is a number when you can do that in the client with javascript?

                          • 25. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                            henk53


                            Both, if you are only validating numeric fields, regular expressions, dates, simple comparisions between fields, etc using a4j:validation will result in a this takes too much time perception from your user, if you think it, it makes sense: why travel all the way to the server to know if ABC is a number when you can do that in the client with javascript?


                            Because the client can't be trusted?

                            • 26. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                              kasper110382

                              I find that there are (at least) three gotchas pertaining to MANUAL flushing.



                              1. Queries cause a flush either way so your flush logic might get interrupted in the middle of a conversation!

                              2. If you build up nested conversations your actions should investigate whether or not they are apart of a nested conversation to ensure that they don't call flush() on behalf of the parent-conversation.

                              3. Other stuff depends on transactions and are not aware of MANUAL flushing, such as JMS. This means that your application will be out of sync because transaction doesn't behave like they used to.



                              I've covered them in more detail on my blog, kasper.eobjects.org.

                              • 27. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                                asookazian

                                Francisco Peredo wrote on Nov 09, 2009 22:12:


                                How about:


                                1. Do not use EAR/EJBs if you want ZeroTurnaround, use WAR/POJOs. Read more





                                This is no longer true as of JRebel 3: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JRebel3withSeam2xtutorial

                                • 28. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                                  asookazian

                                  Kasper Sørensen wrote on May 15, 2010 22:29:


                                  Queries cause a flush either way so your flush logic might get interrupted in the middle of a conversation!


                                  Simply use the setFlushMode() method to set to COMMIT as a workaround to this problem: http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/persistence/Query.html#setFlushMode%28javax.persistence.FlushModeType%29


                                  The reason the MANUAL flush mode type is not in the JPA API is mostly political (Oracle's Mike Keith will not allow)...

                                  • 29. Re: 15 gotchas in seam
                                    deanhiller2000

                                    Queries cause a flush either way so your flush logic might get interrupted in the middle of a conversation!

                                    Odd, we usually do one query in the first transaction and it didn't flush our changes.  we had to manually call flush.  Also, once we were bootstrapped into the object model, we go from page to page to page to page never calling flush and then at the end call flush and we see all the updates go.  We have log4jdbc running in production and even had an issue from two conversations on the same data where the second one got an exception as it had stale data(it did inserts at the end instead of updates)....fixed that by clearing the entityManager
                                    BUT point being we have no updates to the db during a 5 to 10 question script the agents read to customers.


                                    We usually go from object to object(which results in queries to db and no flush)...I think there are cases where we do queries in the middle too....I guess I have just never seen that behavior yet in our cases.( not sure it is a gotcha)