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Welcome to the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips for December 20, 2007. Here you'll get tips on using enterprise Java technologies and APIs, such as those in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE).

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Over the years, the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips have covered a wide variety of enterprise Java technology topics. Here's a short quiz that tests your knowledge of some topics covered in recent Tech Tips. You can find the answers at the end of the quiz.

1. What is @UriTemplate?
    
   
   1. The location of a template used for constructing a URI.
   2. A JAX-RS annotation that identifies the URI path for a RESTful web service resource.
   3. A JAXB annotation that serializes a RESTful web service URI parameter.
   4. None of the above.
    
   
2. What type of security store is used for a GlassFish v2 application server whose domain is configured with the enterprise profile?
    
   
   1. JKS
   2. NSS
   3. SLS
    
   
3. The following tag appears in a JSP page for an application:
    
      <jsfExt:scripts/> 
    
   What does the tag do?
    
   
   1. Includes the jsfExt script into the application.
   2. Includes the JavaServer Faces tag library into the application.
   3. Includes the script.aculo.us JavaScript library into the application.
   4. Includes the Dynamic Faces JavaScript library into the application.
    
   
4. True or false, when a Java Persistence implementation runs in J2SE mode, an application is responsible for creating it's own entity managers?
   
   
   1. True
   2. False
    
   
5. You want to create a simple web service to manage inventory. You create a class that can be used to model any inventory object that you want to expose through your web service, as follows:
    
      public abstract class Item implements Serializable {
       private long id;
       private String brand;
       private String name;
       private double price; 
       ...       
      }
    
   Then you define classes for specific inventory objects such as the following:
    
       public class Glove extends Item {
        private String size;       
}
   
   You then define the web service interface:
      
      @WebService()
         public class Inventory {
             ...
             public List<Item> getItems() {...}
        
             public boolean addItem(Item item) {...}
             ...
         }
   
   

   If you deploy the web service and then look at the generated WSDL and schema, would you see a definition for specific inventory items such as Glove?

   
   
   1. Yes
   2. No

1. What is @UriTemplate?
   
   
   2. A JAX-RS annotation that identifies the URI path for a RESTful web service resource. The annotation identifies the URI path for which a resource class or class method associated with a RESTful web service will serve requests. For more information about RESTful web services and JAX-RS, see the November 16, 2007 Tech Tip Implementing RESTful Web Services in Java.
      
      
2. What type of security store is used for a GlassFish v2 application server whose domain is configured with the enterprise profile?
   
   
   2. NSS. A GlassFish v2 profile presets configuration parameters for a particular type of use. The three profiles are developer, cluster, and enterprise. One of the configuration parameters is Security Store, which identifies how security and trust-related artifacts such as certificates and keys are stored. For the enterprise profile, the Security Store value is set to NSS, which stands for Network Security Services. For more information about security-related settings in GlassFish v2 profiles, see the November 30, 2007 Tech Tip Enabling the GlassFish v2 Application Server as an SSL Server.
      
      
3. The following tag appears in a JSP page for an application:
   
        <jsfExt:scripts/> 
   
   What does the tag do?
    
   
4. Includes the Dynamic Faces JavaScript library into the application. <jsfExt:scripts/> is the standard tag to include for Dynamic Faces applications. You can see an example of a Dynamic Faces application in the October, 2007 Tech Tip Client-Side Polling With Dynamic Faces.
   
   
4. True or false, when a Java Persistence implementation runs in J2SE mode, an application is responsible for creating it's own entity managers?
   
   
1. True. You can use Java Persistence implementations that are compliant with the EJB 3.0 specification (JSR-220) in either of two modes: Java EE (formerly called "in-container") and J2SE (formerly called "out-of-container"). In Java EE mode, an EntityManager instance can be obtained through injection or through JNDI lookup. The lifecycle of an entity manager instance obtained in this way is managed by the container. In J2SE mode, the application is responsible for managing the lifecycle of its entity managers. An EntityManagerFactory can be used to create the entity manager. For more information about the two modes of running a Java Persistence implementation, as well as insights into optimizing the performance of a Java Persistence implementation, see the May 26, 2007 Tech Tip How to Get the Best Performance Out of a Java Persistence Implementation.
   
   
5. You want to create a simple web service to manage inventory. You create a class that can be used to model any inventory object that you want to expose through your web service, as follows:
    
        public abstract class Item implements Serializable {
          private long id;
          private String brand;
          private String name;
          private double price; 
          ...       
     }
    
   Then you define classes for specific inventory objects such as the following:
    
        public class Glove extends Item {
        private String size;       
 }
 
   You then define the web service interface:
    
     @WebService()
        public class Inventory {
            ...
            public List<Item> getItems() {...}
           
            public boolean addItem(Item item) {...}
    
            ...
        }
    
   If you deploy the web service and then look at the generated WSDL and schema, would you see a definition for specific inventory items such as Glove?
   
   

2. No. If you deployed this web service and then looked at the generated WSDL and schema, you would notice that only the Item type is defined -- there would be no mention of Glove or any other specific item that extends the abstract Item class. This is because when JAX-WS introspects the Inventory class there is no mention of classes for the specific items. To remedy that you can use the @XmlSeeAlso annotation and list the other classes that you want to expose through the Inventory web service. For more information about the @XmlSeeAlso annotation and how it can be used to enable support for type substitution, see the September 2007 Tech Tip Using Type Substitution With Web Services.

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