When trying to deploy an AppFuse application on Tomcat I received the following error: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: An error occurred at line: 153 in the generated java file Type mismatch: cannot convert from null to int An error occurred at line: 168 in the generated java file Cannot cast from Object [...]
I had some problems getting date fields to work (and return a friendly error message) so here comes a little documentation for future reference. This was in an AppFuse based Spring Framework project. The model contains a java.util.Date property and simply exposing it as usual in a form will cause an exception since Spring doesn’t [...]
Some more tips about getting an AppFuse generated application into NetBeans. Pick archetype of choice, e.g.: mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.appfuse.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=appfuse-basic-spring -DremoteRepositories=http://static.appfuse.org/releases -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.2 -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=myproject Run mvn Generate full sources: mvn appfuse:full-source Install the Maven plugin in NetBeans (Tools / Plugins / Search for Maven). Open the project (located the pom.xml file) Right-click the project name [...]
Sometime it may be useful to manually run the (Canoo) web tests for AppFuse applications to be able to see what goes wrong. Accomplish this by making the test web container pause upon start using: mvn -Dcargo.wait Then the application (using default values) is reachable at: http://localhost:8081/<app_name>/ Where <app_name> might be something like appname-1.0-SNAPSHOT depending [...]
Once mapped in hibernate.cfg.xml run: mvn test-compile hibernate3:hbm2ddl