Either way will add an entity to a PersistenceContext, the difference is in what you do with the entity afterwards. Persist takes an entity instance, adds it to the context and makes that instance managed (i.e. future updates to the entity will be tracked). Merge returns the managed instance that the state was merged with. … Read more
The annotation @JoinColumn indicates that this entity is the owner of the relationship (that is: the corresponding table has a column with a foreign key to the referenced table), whereas the attribute mappedBy indicates that the entity in this side is the inverse of the relationship, and the owner resides in the “other” entity. This … Read more
Is this the correct way of doing things? Apart from performing business logic the inefficient way in a managed bean getter method, and using a too broad managed bean scope, it looks okay. If you move the service call from the getter method to a @PostConstruct method and use either @RequestScoped or @ViewScoped instead of … Read more
Validation fails with the message “form:location: Validation Error: Value is not valid” This error boils down to that the selected item does not match any of the available select item values specified by any nested <f:selectItem(s)> tag during processing of the form submit request. As part of safeguard against tampered/hacked requests, JSF will reiterate over … Read more