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Building and Deploying Java EE EAR with Maven to Java EE Application Server (Part 5) – Deployment To WebLogic 10.3.x & WebLogic 12.x

So far, we’ve covered Maven deployment of Java EE EAR to Glassfish 3.x, JBoss 5.x & 6.x. In this article, I’m going to show you how to deploy the EAR through Maven to Oracle’s WebLogic (both 10.3.x and 12.x). I truly have to give credit to the WebLogic team as regardless of the area of Maven deployment or Maven Java EE project dependency, WebLogic is by far the easiest and the simplest among all of the Application Servers that I have dealt with in terms of Maven. Although the production licenses are a little pricy, but remember this, what you pay is what you get.
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Quick Fix: Weblogic 10.3.x – How To Solve “org.apache.openjpa.persistence.
InvalidStateException: Detected reentrant flush…”

I was performing a Java EE App migration to Weblogic 10.3.6, that worked very well in other Java EE Application Servers. The Java EE App runs on MySQL DB. Unfortunately, there was this annoying little problem that caused the whole application to fail. Everytime when I deploy the EAR, it gives an exception stack like the below:
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PHP, Doctrine ORM & MySQL – How To Deal With Chinese, Korean, Japanese & Other Non-English UTF-8 Character Encoding

There was a web application project, PHP in nature, that my team and I had developed for the past couple of months and it was time to setup and move all of the application to the production server which is running on Ubuntu Linux. The application data stored in MySQL is a combination of both English and the Chinese Simplified characters (because of bilingualism). Unfortunately, most of our selenium functional test failed right after we ran it and we’d discovered that any form of data gotten from the MySQL database was displayed only with ???? characters for the data in the Chinese language. This caused me to look for a solution and I’m happy to document this in case some poor souls out there encounter the same problem as we did.
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Building and Deploying Java EE EAR with Maven to Java EE Application Server (Part 4) – Deployment To JBoss AS 5.x & JBoss AS 6.x

We’ve discussed the Deployment to Glassfish 3.x in Part 3 of the series. In this article, we’ll do Maven deployment to JBoss AS 5.x and JBoss AS 6.x. For readers regardless if you are new to the series or had been following it, you don’t have to finish reading all the article parts before coming to this, all you have to do is to first complete or understand Part 1 and Part 2 of the series (you can skip Part 3) before carrying out the deployment steps for JBoss Application Server in this article.
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Quick Note: How To Setup JMS Queue/Topic & Connection Factory On JBoss 6.x

Things have changed since the JBoss team officially adopted HornetQ as their messaging module on the Application Server Version 6 onwards. This is just a short note for the developers who need to get the Queue/Topic and custom connection factories working in the nick of time. This is for non-XA and non-Clustered only.
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Quick Note: How To Setup JMS Queue/Topic & Connection Factory On JBoss 5.x

This is just a short reference for the impatiens or people who are always forgetful (like me) when it comes to getting the connection factories, queues and topics working on JBoss 5.x Application Server. This short note is good for developers who need to get JBoss 5.x running in the nick of time for their MDB/JMS development. This is a non-XA and non-Clustered setup configuration.
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Building and Deploying Java EE EAR with Maven to Java EE Application Server (Part 3) – Deployment To Glassfish 3.x

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we have discussed about the directory layout and the Java EE demo project source codes that we had and further to be used to demonstrate the whole Java EE project development and deployment through Maven. From this part onwards, I will only be writing Application Server specific deployment configuration in Maven (using the contents from Part 1 and Part 2), at the same time, utilizing various plugins that are available. In this part, it is specifically about the deployment of the demo Java EE 5 project to Glassfish Ver 3.x Application Server. Again, for folks how came to this article directly, I would highly suggest that you read both Part 1 and Part 2 of this series to know what’s had been going on.

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Building and Deploying Java EE EAR with Maven to Java EE Application Server (Part 2) – Where to put your source codes and pom.xml (EJB, MDB, Web & Enterprise Application Client)

In the previous part: Building and Deploying Java EE EAR with Maven to Java EE Application Server (Part 1) – Project Directory Structure & Module Generation Through archetype:generate of the series, we have lay down the directory structure for the Java EE EAR project through Maven’s archetype:generate command. In this part, we’ll be dwelling into where to place the source codes and we’ll discuss the the necessary dependency and plugins that are needed to be included in the respective pom.xml files. For those who are reading for the first time, I highly suggest that you read from Part 1 and for those whom had been following us, if necessary, you may need to refer back and forth from the first part of the series to this part of the series as to iron out the glitches of understanding.
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Building and Deploying Java EE EAR with Maven to Java EE Application Server (Part 1) – Project Directory Structure & Module Generation Through archetype:generate

Maven wasn’t very popular and wide used when it was first released, but after version 2, it had gain lots of traction amount Java developers and it then became widely used as a project build and management tool not only for private projects, but we can also see that there are a tremendously large amount of open source projects being managed, maintained and build by Maven.
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Java LDAP/JNDI: 2 Ways Of Decoding And Using The objectGUID From Windows Active Directory

Windows Active Directory is a good way for many corporations to be used as a means of user management. To a further extend, custom software application are being developed to leverage its capabilities as a directory server and marshaling of certain user information to be stored back to the custom developed application’s database is quite common. In order to uniquely identify the objects in the directory (objects include person, group, OUs, etc.) these objects carry an attribute call objectGUID. If you are writing a Java or Java EE app that requires access to this, it might not be straight forward to read it as it is because it is stored in binary form. This article will guide you through what is objectGUID, what can it be used and more importantly here, it will show you 2 ways of decoding it.
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Quick Note: Unable To Perform LDAP Wildcard “*” Search On Windows Active Directory

In case you are searching high and low for a solution or an answer to why Windows Active Directory doesn’t return any search when you perform a wildcard search on attributes like “distinguishedName“, “memberOf” or “member“, well, here’s the answer…
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Java JNDI/LDAP: Windows Active Directory Authentication, Organizational Unit, Group & Other Information Access

In today’s IT environment, most mid-size corporation and above will have some form of centralized employee/user management system that is often conveniently leveraging on the directory service that the operating system supplies and Windows Active Directory is one that is used and made available in the corporate space. If the Java/Java EE application that you are writing involves accessing the Windows Active Directory for user authentication and checking of user privilege according to department, job title or even organizational unit, in order to decide if certain features of your software could be made available, this article will give you a comprehensive kick start to get the codes running as soon as possible.
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Started a new series of "Building and Deploying Java EE EAR with Maven to Java EE Application Server" series. Part 3 is about Deployment to Glassfish Ver 3.x. More App Servers to come... #
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Just posted a few articles on Java JNDI/LDAP access to Windows Active Directory within the last two weeks. Hope to give some support for Java developers who are stretching their heads with Windows Active Directory. #
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We've just posted the complete series on MySQL Cluster NDB 7.2 on Solaris 10 for the folks that are looking for quick snappy guide to successful installation and implementation. Check out the first part of the article here. #
Had completed the series on Making Sense of EJB3.x Transaction Attributes, you may always start the first part here #
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Even after JTA was introduced for more than 10 years, I've discovered that there are still many developers who are pretty confused with transaction in EJB. I'll start of with some posts relating to transaction before the 1Q of the year ends. #

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