[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Nested conversations and explicit conversation ids

2006-06-25 Thread rdewell
The behavior of nested conversations and explicit conversation IDs seems strange to me: The *current* conversation ID is replaced with the explicit ID of a nested conversation before the nested conversation is actually created... So my root explicit converation ID always gets replaced by any

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Explicit conversation ID redirect question

2006-06-25 Thread rdewell
I removed the description from all entries in pages.xml. Fortunately I wasn't using it for anyting yet. However that has made no change to the discussed behavior. Navigating to different views within the same conversation changes the viewId associated with the conversation. View the

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Explicit conversation ID redirect question

2006-06-24 Thread rdewell
I need to keep using pages.xml as it's the only way to provide a URL abstraction for action methods. I hope someday it supports even more free-form URL patterns, actually. It appears to me that when I navigate around within the same conversation, Seam keeps track of the last viewId for that

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Explicit conversation ID redirect question

2006-06-23 Thread rdewell
When resuming an existing conversation with the same explicit id, it would be nice to have some control over the view ID that the conversation is redirected to. Right now of course it redirects to whatever view ID is set on the conversation. Typically I'm finding that when resuming a

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Different ways to look at it.

2006-06-23 Thread rdewell
Phrased differently, I guess this would be the idea of a conversation home. Or, the idea of more control over conversation resuming... Perhaps by default Seam could simply use the very first ViewId associated with a conversation as the home view ID. Then, a new option in @Begin could be:

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Proposed move of components.xml location

2006-06-22 Thread rdewell
Please just don't break the ability to have multiple WARs in the same EAR! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3952732#3952732 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=3952732 Using Tomcat but need to do

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Limitations of action oriented framework (pages)

2006-06-20 Thread rdewell
I'm excited about the potential behind pages.xml, but there seems to be limitations, especially with regards to the underlying JSF impl. Chiefly, I've had no success in using a URL request path that does not map back to an existing view file. For example, take the request:

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: EJBNoSuchObjectException when Seam destroys a component

2006-06-20 Thread rdewell
As we discussed, I can work around this for Session scoped SFSB's by using the JBoss specific @CacheInfo annotation, setting the timeout to be the same as an HttpSession. But what about Application scoped SFSB's? We run into this same problem due to the aforementioned reasons in this thread.

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: EJBNoSuchObjectException when Seam destroys a component

2006-06-18 Thread rdewell
OK. Another idea: if there was a hook for Seam to set those in JBoss per component, Seam could keep those in-sync with whatever settings were in web.xml regarding conversation timeout and session timeout. View the original post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: EJBNoSuchObjectException when Seam destroys a component

2006-06-16 Thread rdewell
I asked the EJB3 forum. The default expiration on SFSB is 300 seconds. There are custom JBoss annotations called @CacheConfig for both Simple and Tree caches which allow this to be customized on a per-bean basis. This all may prompt some clarification in the Seam docs? My general notion of a

[JBoss-user] [EJB 3.0] - Re: Default expiration time of SFSB

2006-06-16 Thread rdewell
Thanks. I see that I can also change this setting granularly using the @CacheConfig annotation. I'd put this on the @Stateful implementation class, correct? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3951321#3951321 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: EJBNoSuchObjectException when Seam destroys a component

2006-06-15 Thread rdewell
This is causing serious problems for our application. I tried switching to EJB3Clustered to hopefully use the TreeCache, but for some reason it's still using SimpleStatefulCache. | javax.ejb.EJBNoSuchObjectException: Could not find Stateful bean: 3j001-gthwm3-eofzrkxj-1-eogs4rla-sb |

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Begin Conversation on GET, Questions

2006-06-15 Thread rdewell
To clarify, @Begin a conversation in a PAGE scoped component during the GET? Wouldn't the PAGE scoped component get destroyed at the end of the lifecycle making it unavailable if the conversation is then carried out? How are other folks handling this? This issue would come into play with any

[JBoss-user] [EJB 3.0] - Re: Unchecked Exception break stateful session bean via EJBN

2006-06-15 Thread rdewell
Is there logging somewhere that says: Removing XYZ SFSB due to exception: blah blah..? That might be helpful at least. We're getting EJBNoSuchObject exceptions in our log all over the place with no clear reason why -- there are no other exceptions in the log files. Ryan View the original

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: EJBNoSuchObjectException when Seam destroys a component

2006-06-15 Thread rdewell
I'm seeing this in conjunction with a session scoped bean... Without knowing a thing about the internals of SFSB, Seam, etc... is it possible that any cache / expiration setting for the session scoped SFSB is SHORTER than it needs to be? I'm not sure where this value is held, but if my

[JBoss-user] [EJB 3.0] - Default expiration time of SFSB

2006-06-15 Thread rdewell
What is the expiration time of an SFSB out of the SimpleStatefulCache? Also, are there any other criteria for removing an SFSB from SimpleStatefulCache. For example, I know that an unchecked exception thrown by the SFSB will cause it to be removed. Thanks, Ryan View the original post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - EJBNoSuchObjectException when Seam destroys a component

2006-06-13 Thread rdewell
I get this exception without fail when Seam tries to destroy an object: javax.ejb.EJBNoSuchObjectException: Could not find Stateful bean: 5c4o02-7eucln-eoekzs0b-1-eoel3ii8-2w It's always in conjunction with: 11:56:27,202 WARN [Contexts] Could not destroy component: XYZ It occurs for any

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Begin Conversation on GET, Questions

2006-06-12 Thread rdewell
We use the begin-conversation-on-GET pattern extensively in our app -- typically when starting a conversation about a specific database object. The problem with this model is that we're effectively creating far too many unnecessary conversations as a user bounces around freeform in the web

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - User sessions, a nested conversation use-case?

2006-05-25 Thread rdewell
Can/should conversations be used to keep track of a logged in user (traditionally done with a session). I was thinking of the case where a user signs in and a new conversation is started. This would effectively be the root of the conversation stack for the lifetime of the user's interaction

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - conversationStack / conversationList

2006-05-25 Thread rdewell
I've been using @Begin and @End for a while now, in what I consider very basic ways. All works relatively well. In an effort to get a deeper understanding of conversations and perhaps use them in a more advanced way, I tried to see what was going on under the covers: | #{conversation.id}

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Resources.getResourceAsStream not multiple war safe

2006-05-17 Thread rdewell
This also is not multiple WAR (in one EAR) safe: |private static boolean exists = false; | |protected AbstractSeamPhaseListener() |{ | if (exists) log.warn(There should only be one Seam phase listener per application); | exists=true; |} | View

[JBoss-user] [EJB 3.0] - What is JNDI location of a MDB POJO?

2006-05-01 Thread rdewell
Upgrading from 4.0.3 SP1 to 4.0.4 CR2. JNDI used to be full class name of the @Consumer object.. In 4.0.4 it says that name is not bound. What is it now? Thanks, Ryan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3940570#3940570 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-user] [EJB 3.0] - Re: What is JNDI location of a MDB POJO?

2006-05-01 Thread rdewell
FYI, I've tried: - FQL of Consumer (ala 4.0.3SP1) - ear/BeanName/local - ear/BeanName/remote The trail blazer is still using FQL of Producer now? http://trailblazer.demo.jboss.com/EJB3Trail/serviceobjects/mdpojo/code/calculator.jsp.html I'll try that. View the original post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: transaction rollbackexception error

2006-04-30 Thread rdewell
This exception swallows up other exceptions, hiding the *real* reason for the error. See the conclusion of: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopict=81613 So, there is some method of yours that is causing an exception. Instead of seeing the actual exception, you get this

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: SeamExtendedManagedPersistencePhaseListener

2006-04-28 Thread rdewell
He's not using SEMPPL + his own TX management. He's using his own TX management despite SEMPPL. He only moved away from SEMPPL to his own TX management when he could not resolve the exception previously mentioned in this thread: could not register synchronization with JTA TransactionManager,

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: SeamExtendedManagedPersistencePhaseListener

2006-04-28 Thread rdewell
anonymous wrote : Right, but SEMPPL does tx management. In fact, that is *all* it does. If you want to do your own tx management, you don't need it. As I read his thread, he did stop using SEMPPL and switched to the regular SeamPhaseListener + custom TX management because he could not resolve

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: SeamExtendedManagedPersistencePhaseListener

2006-04-28 Thread rdewell
It wasn't clear to me that the synchronization exception is responsible for swallowing up other exception causes. In a post in this same thread it was said that either the application or JSF is swallowing exceptions, which doesn't appear to be the case at all. Is this exception masking

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Custom PhaseListener timing

2006-04-27 Thread rdewell
We built our application using Seam (beta 1) as an integral part. To that end, Seam participates fully in translating URLs into view selection / creation during GET requests. For example, translating the URL: /articles/db-driven-title.html To perform this URL to view translation / setup,

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Custom PhaseListener timing

2006-04-27 Thread rdewell
Hmm... I didn't realize the scope of the page actions framework. Maybe something like view-id=* might work. Let me play around with that. Ryan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3939942#3939942 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Resources.getResourceAsStream not multiple war safe

2006-04-27 Thread rdewell
CR2. If multiple WARs are in the same EAR, and both WARs are Seam applications, then this method impl causes problems. For example, one WAR is loading/seeing the pages.xml of the other WAR. Please let me know if you need additional information. Ryan View the original post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - New LazyInitializationException from beta1 to CR2

2006-04-27 Thread rdewell
Upgrading from beta1 to CR2. Continuing to use SeamExtendedManagedPhaseListener as always. I have a Session scoped component that holds an entity reference. However, I'm now receiving a LazyInitializationException when accessing that entity on the next request: |

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Resources.getResourceAsStream not multiple war safe

2006-04-27 Thread rdewell
According to: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ClassLoadingConfiguration scoping only works at the top-most level, in this case the EAR. So, there's no way to scope off WARs from each other within the same EAR. You can only scope off one EAR from other EARs. Couldn't / shouldn't

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: New LazyInitializationException from beta1 to CR2

2006-04-27 Thread rdewell
Thanks. I converted those beans accordingly. No more LazyInitException. Back to this error now, though: | 11:02:43,668 ERROR [STDERR] org.hibernate.TransactionException: could not register synchronization w | ith JTA TransactionManager | at

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: SeamExtendedManagedPersistencePhaseListener

2006-04-27 Thread rdewell
g.tomassoni, did you ever find a solution to your problem of: could not register synchronization with JTA TransactionManager We are experiencing this after upgrading Seam/Jboss/EJB3 and are unable to find the source. Similar to your description, the first request works fine, and then the

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Custom PhaseListener timing

2006-04-26 Thread rdewell
Between the phases listened to, and the ordering of the phase listeners in the faces-config, I should be able to have them fire in whatever order I need without extending Seam's phase listener. What is the earliest phase point (before/after) where I should be able to start accessing Seam

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Custom PhaseListener timing

2006-04-26 Thread rdewell
I need to be able to use Seam components during createView of a ViewHandler (at least). This was working in beta 1, and we need to be to get back to that ability to upgrade. The problem with using Seam components then is that there is no conversation until you get to afterPhase RESTORE_VIEW

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Custom PhaseListener timing

2006-04-25 Thread rdewell
Upgrading from beta 1 to CR1. We use a custom PhaseListener executing afterPhase RESTORE_VIEW. Unfortunately we're having several problems migrating this to CR1 (was working in beta 1). This PhaseListener itself accesses Seam components so the timing of it is obviously crucial to the

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Suggestions on Scope

2006-03-14 Thread rdewell
As long as we're on the topic, I could really use a scope that sits between Application and Session. I implemented a quasi-scope myself using an Application scoped bean + a Map, though it's not as clean as using a pure Seam scope. This is a specific case I realize, but maybe it would be cool

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: JBoss Seam for (pre)production

2006-02-27 Thread rdewell
Hi Yannn, I think you'll find the current stability of beta 2 perfectly acceptable for an initial production release in May. Best regards, Ryan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3926548#3926548 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: 1.0 beta 2 released

2006-02-09 Thread rdewell
anonymous wrote : So, it seems to me that this potential for conflicts is more a problem with the EJB spec itself than with our implementation. True enough. Here's a suggestion for Seam, then. Given the built in naming capacity of EJB via Entity/Stateful/Stateless(name=), what I'd like to see

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Beta 2: Names vs JNDI, jndiPattern, etc

2006-02-09 Thread rdewell
I guess I always (incorrectly) assumed that JNDI lookups were automatically isolated to the EAR that I'm in -- by nature preventing any conflicts across EARs... It's weird to me that by default multiple EARs share the same class / name lookup space. View the original post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: 1.0 beta 2 released

2006-02-09 Thread rdewell
I'd definitely give a +1 vote for: ... @Component annotation that implies the @Name from the EJB name. Ryan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3922649#3922649 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Beta 2: Names vs JNDI, jndiPattern, etc

2006-02-08 Thread rdewell
I don't know if it was a change in the ejb spec, Seam, or both, but my Seam code has just become a whole lot more complicated and error prone with this new release -- all with regard to the new JNDI naming requirements. For example, my *.ejb contains code for multiple web applications. They

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: 1.0 beta 2 released

2006-02-08 Thread rdewell
To preface, I appreciate the hard work and effort on this important project. I hate to be abrupt, but this new JNDI name resolution behavior versus beta 1 is unusable for large applications. (Actually, in my opinion, even error prone for small applications). Beta 1 was simple,

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: 1.0 beta 2 released

2006-02-08 Thread rdewell
I suppose it's ultimately a matter of aesthetics and it does have workarounds. However, it is just one more thing I and others are going to have to keep in mind while developing: Does this unqualified class name conflict with a class name in another *package*. If so, then I have to give it a

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: 1.0 beta 2 released

2006-02-08 Thread rdewell
anonymous wrote : Re: EJB3 will throw an exception if you have to EJBs with the same EJB name in the same EAR. Not currently. Instead, the application starts up perfectly -- without exception, error, or warning. Two beans with the *same* JNDI are printed in the log: | 18:36:27,841 INFO

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - @Destroy / @Remove / @PreDestroy

2006-02-01 Thread rdewell
I'm confused about the interplay of these annotations on a SFSB. As I understand it, to get Seam to remove the bean when the context ends, I need to annotate: @Destroy and @Remove on a method. I need to capture expiration of that bean though. Where's the best place to cleanup the bean or

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - SeamListener: No Conversation Active

2006-02-01 Thread rdewell
Still using beta 1. As recommended in the Seam docs, all of my beans have a method with @Destroy @Remove on them. Beyond that, these methods are no-ops. Yet, whenever the SeamListener runs to expire out the session, this shows up in the error logs: | java.lang.IllegalStateException: No

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Logging conversation events (e.g. timeouts) ?

2006-02-01 Thread rdewell
Re: Note that the conversation timeout stuff does not run in a background thread. You have to hit the server witha request in the same session context to actually force any timeouts that are due. But, they would get expired in the background when the session expires, right? Via SeamListener?

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: SeamListener: No Conversation Active

2006-02-01 Thread rdewell
More of the stacktrace after my previous post: | at org.jboss.seam.contexts.Contexts.callDestroyMethod(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.seam.contexts.Contexts.destroy(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.seam.contexts.Lifecycle.endSession(Unknown Source) | at

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Feedback requested

2005-12-28 Thread rdewell
Regarding conversations, JBPM, workflow annotations, etc.. While appreciate that Seam is (hopefully just initially) standardizing on JBPM for most workflow functionality, what I would LOVE to see is Seam also support a more lightweight workflow engine that is geared towards a non-persistent

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Seam Comments

2005-12-20 Thread rdewell
werpu, I think something like your idea about the generic data model has been previously discussed. You might want to check out this thread: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopict=70199 Gavin actually came up with some related code but didn't appear to offer clear advantages.

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: On conversation usage patterns

2005-12-15 Thread rdewell
Thanks for the input. RE: My reverse engineered crud app stuff has the freeform model you are describing. I'm not sure where that's located at? I'd like to take a look and compare it to what I'm doing. Ryan View the original post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - On conversation usage patterns

2005-12-14 Thread rdewell
To prefix: I'm using Seam extended managed transactions. I've run into a use-case that seems to lie somewhere in the realm of conversations, yet doesn't quite fit current conversational semantics exactly. Obviously conversations seem best suited to a page-to-page wizard style UI. A flow with

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: On conversation usage patterns

2005-12-14 Thread rdewell
Perhaps it's the notion of a save point that I'm getting at? A point intermediary to the explicit end of the conversation where progress is committed, but the conversation is NOT ended. For the UserTransaction, it would be a commit/begin, and the current conversation bean(s) would stay a part

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - RFC: Validation groups

2005-12-13 Thread rdewell
I find that if a view contains very granular forms, then it is sometimes convenient for the same backing bean to handle several of these forms. In other words: a different action per form, where each action is on the same backing bean. This doesn't work well for server side Seam validation,

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Updating changes to an entity in a conversation bean.

2005-12-11 Thread rdewell
I'm missing something very basic here. I'm using the Seam managed extended persistence + a conversation scoped bean. It's a very simple form that updates values on an existing entity. In my @Begin method, I load up the entity and store it the conversation bean. The subsequent view shows the

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: Updating changes to an entity in a conversation bean.

2005-12-11 Thread rdewell
Ah, I'm not insane! Thanks for the quick response. I didn't think merge was necessary either. I'll try this right away. Ryan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=3911991#3911991 Reply to the post :

[JBoss-user] [JBoss Seam] - create=true as default of a component type (not for @In)

2005-12-03 Thread rdewell
A while back I suggested that create=true be the default for @In. Gavin didn't think that would be very safe -- after further use I'd have to agree. create=false makes sense as the @In default. However, I can't get around the fact that in my use there are several component beans that are

[JBoss-user] [Installation, Configuration Deployment] - EAR granularity and deployment best practice (?)

2005-10-12 Thread rdewell
Hello, new to J2EE, and I have a deployment question. We have two primary web applications: A and B. Each web application has its own release cycle. For example, A will be updated quite a bit more frequently than B. Therefore, we will package and deploy A and B in their own separate EARs. The