On Java Development

This page provides links to various resources for the Java language and related technologies.
 

Java EE Tutorials.

JEE 6
JEE 7
JEE 8

Web development

Various links regarding technologies used to build web-applications. Useful when conducting research.

This link lists each of the RichFaces components along with their style classes and skin parameters. Useful when needing to override a CCS setting or to simply gain insight about component “skinning”.
Style Classes and Skin Parameters

Recommended Reading

Because knowledge doesn’t come by osmosis.

Core JavaServer Faces, 3rd Edition 2010
This covers the inner workings of JSF and how to use the components on a web page with its associated backing bean.

Apache MyFaces and Facelets
This book introduces Facelets which is a page declaration language that is used to create JSF web-pages. Facelets supports code reuse through the use of templates. There is a chapter devoted to Tomahawk.

Spring Persistence with Hibernate
This book shows how to use Spring with Hibernate. Topics include the Java Persistence API.

Hibernate Recipes
This book is a problem-solving resource that presents the challenge and the solution. For example, if you want to know how to create a Hibernate mapping class for a file that does not have an identity field, this book will present the solution to that problem. There are many, many more.

Effective Java, 2nd Edition
This book provides a deeper understanding of the Java programming language so that you can write code that is clearer, more correct, more robust, and more reusable. It provides seventy-eight indispensable programmer’s rules of thumb and working, best-practice solutions for the programming challenges encountered.