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JavaServer Faces technology provides

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The entire application can be downloaded from this link.

Setting the Eclipse environment

1. Download Apache Geronimo2.1 and install it on the server. Look into the geronimo documentation for instructions.

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3. Create a runtime environment for Apache Geronimo2.1 in the eclipse. Look into the geronimo eclipse plugin documentation for instructions to install a runtime for Apache Geronimo2.1.

Creating WEB application with entities

1. Start the eclipse wizard and right click on the Project Explorer and click on the New => Dynamic Web Project

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35. This finishes the WEB application creation and JSF configuration. Export the EmployeeWEB to a EmployeeWEB.war file.

Setting up the database tables and the Datasource

1. Start the geronimo server and click on the Console Navigation => Embedded DB => DB manager. Enter EmployeeDB in the Create DB textbox as shown in the below screen shot and click on the Create button.

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6. This will deploy the EmployeeDS database pool. The moduleId of the database pool is console.dbpool/EmployeeDS/1.0/rar which is declared as a dependency in the geronimo-web.xml. This is because, JPA uses this database source to persist entities.

Deploying the (war) application

1. Deploy the EmployeeWEB.war file using the command prompt as follows.

C:\Geronimo-2.1\bin>deploy.bat --user system --password manager deploy EmployeeWEB.war
Using GERONIMO_BASE:   C:\Geronimo-2.1
Using GERONIMO_HOME:   C:\Geronimo-2.1
Using GERONIMO_TMPDIR: var\temp
Using JRE_HOME:        C:\SDK-May-31-2007\jre
    Deployed EmployeeJSF/WEB/1.0/car @ /EmployeeWEB

Running the application

1. Open a browser window and hit the URL http://localhost:8080/EmployeeWEB/. This will bring up the below screen.

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