Recently we had a problem with a broken transaction in an application running in Wildfly 20. javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException: WFLYJPA0060: Transaction is required to perform this operation (either use a transaction or extended persistence context) We were not shure which line caused the exception, as the stacktrace was not very specific. So we debugged the application step by step and checked with the following code if the transaction was set to rollback or was still active: CDI.current().select(TransactionSynchronizationRegistry.class).get().getTransactionStatus() As long as the status 1 (ACTIVE) was returned the transaction was still valid, but at the subroutine the status switched to 4 (MARKED_ROLLBACK). We…

This week we set up a developoment environment on a new PC for a JavaEE project using Tomcat 8.5 (we downloaded the recently released version 8.5.49 to be specific). We started up the IDE, deployed the WAR on a Tomcat server and ran into the following error: javax.faces.view.facelets.TagAttributeException: […] Could not Resolve Variable [Overflow]: … After some research using our favorite search engine we came across: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35372187/jsf-uiinclude-recursion-causes-java-lang-stackoverflowerror and http://balusc.omnifaces.org/2016/02/recursive-tree-of-composite-components.html So… sounds like there is a recursive file include? Strangely some weeks ago the project ran on our old developoment environment that had a Tomcat 8.5.14… Also these posts were relatively…

Das Container-Management System Docker ist ganz praktisch, um Dienste und Applikationen in einer kontrollierten und isolierten Umgebung laufen zu lassen. In vielen Situationen ist es außerdem hilfreich, Verzeichnisse in einem Docker Container auf ein lokales Verzeichnis mappen zu können. Speziell in Entwicklungs-Umgebungen, wo diese Konfiguration es erlaubt Dateien (z.B. für eine Web-Applikation) auf dem Host-Volume direkt in der IDE zu modifizieren, so dass der laufende Docker Dienst diese geänderten Dateien direkt ohne ein Deployment übernimmt. Auch wenn Docker Container oft Linux Binaries laufen lassen, gibt es mit der „Docker Desktop“ Suite die Möglichkeit native Linux Container auf einem Windows-System laufen…

This article describes how to bundle a database driver and the datasource configuration into an enterprise archive (EAR).  In my case I used WildFly 15 and MariaDB JDBC Client as the database driver for MySQL. The Java MySQL JDBC driver is under the GPL license and cannot be bundled into the application (at least for me).