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Much has changed with Oracle’s recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems.  Most noted has been Oracle consolidation and relocation of information from Sun websites.  In addition to Oracle’s branding of Java, many pages have moved or have been killed.  One of these links, important to Netbeans, is the location to download Glassfish for automatic installation.  I run/virtualize Ubuntu v11.04 for one of many development environments, and for those who use Ubuntu you know all too well how that distribution is slow with merging current releases.  For instance, I’ve been running Netbeans v6.9 since v10.10, and it looks like I’ll be running it until v11.10. With that said, I’m stuck with v6.9.1 at the moment.  Unfortunately, there is a bug in version of Netbeans prior to v7 that is a result of Oracle migrating website content.

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Ever get that feeling like an entire day, if not days, is going to be wasted as a result of tracking down a compatibility issue that leaves you rushing to find a fix?  That’s exactly how I felt after I upgraded my test instance of Glassfish from v3.0.1 to v3.1, breaking compatibility with existing applications.  I, unfortunately, didn’t thoroughly read the EclipseLink Bug List or notes on Richfaces v3.* integration with JSF 2.0.  In fact, I didn’t read it at all.

For the purpose of this post, I want to detail the immediate and significant problems that may result after a GFv3.1 upgrade.  The initial bug I encountered has to do with EclipseLink and it’s handling of column/table name comparisons, and ultimately throws an org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.ValidationException exception.  Case-sensitivity becomes an issue with this release, and a fix is not available until release 2.2.1 at the earliest (currently at 2.2.0.v20110202-r8913).  There is a workaround, however.  Next, I’ll look into the care that must be taken with running Richfaces 3.3.3 in a JSF 2 environment. Read the rest of this entry »