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Spring Portlet MVC Implicit Model

var dzone_style=”2″;Do you use Spring Portlet MVC? Have you ever noticed the ImplicitModel request parameter in your URL? It looks something like:

org.springframework.web.portlet.mvc.ImplicitModel=true

Well, it’s a Spring Portlet MVC 2.5 feature and I was scratching my head trying to figure out what it does. It’s set by Spring under the covers, so I dug into their source [...]

Annotation-based Spring Portlet MVC Lifecycle

var dzone_style=”2″;Jared Richardson spoke at a Richmond Java Users Group meeting I attended last week; his topic was about investing in yourself and your career - what he called career 2.0. At one point during the presentation, he noted that “if you can’t draw something, you don’t understand it”, which motivated me to finish a [...]

Compress your JBoss Portal Theme with pack:tag

The goal of this article is to show you how to use pack:tag to optimize the performance of your JBoss Portal theme. I’ve used this approach on a production JBoss Portal 2.6 implementation and tested the approach out in version 2.7.
JBoss Portal has a feature-rich theme framework where CSS and javascript resources are included in [...]

Taking the Sun Certified Business Component Developer Exam

Note: this is an adaptation of a write-up I did for work. Hope you enjoy it.
Who (should read this?)
Java developers and aspiring architects
What (are we talking about?)

Taking the Sun Certified Business Component Developer (for Java, Enterprise Edition 5) exam.
This exam covers Enterprise JavaBeans 3, the new Java Persistence API (JPA - largely based on Hibernate) [...]