Monday, January 4, 2010

How to use Java Persistence API (JPA)?

The Java Persistence API, sometimes referred to as JPA, is a Java programming language framework that allows developers to manage relational data in applications. A persistence entity is a lightweight Java class whose state is typically persisted to a table in a relational database. Instances of such an entity correspond to individual rows in the table. Entities typically have relationships with other entities, and these relationships are expressed through object/relational metadata. Object/relational metadata can be specified directly in the entity class file by using annotations, or in a separate XML descriptor file distributed with the application.

Let's start with Simple Java Code.

Consider following table in any rational database.


Table Structure:

CREATE TABLE `persistencemsg` (
`messageCode` INT(10) NOT NULL,
`sessionId` VARCHAR(500) NULL,
`message` BLOB(4294967295),
PRIMARY KEY (`messageCode`),
INDEX `messageCode` (`messageCode`)
)
ENGINE = INNODB;


Now, we will write corresponding entity class (JPIPersistenceMessage.java) for the same. @Table annotation represents table name of the table, in our case it is 'PERSISTENCEMSG'. This entity class is always implements Serializable to write thread safe code. It contains getter and setter method for each column in the table. @Column annotation represents column name corresponding to the each column in the table. Go through below Java code.


Class: JPIPersistenceMessage.java

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

/**
*
* @author naman
*/
@Entity
@Table(name = "PERSISTENCEMSG")
public class JPIPersistenceMessage implements Serializable {

private byte [] message;
private int messageCode;
private String sessionId;

/**
* @return the message
*/
@Column(name = "MESSAGE")
public byte[] getMessage() {
return message;
}

/**
* @param message the message to set
*/
public void setMessage(byte[] message) {
this.message = message;
}

/**
* @return the messageCode
*/
@Column(name = "MESSAGECODE")
public int getMessageCode() {
return messageCode;
}

/**
* @param messageCode the messageCode to set
*/
public void setMessageCode(int messageCode) {
this.messageCode = messageCode;
}

/**
* @return the sessionId
*/
@Column(name = "SESSIONID")
public String getSessionId() {
return sessionId;
}

/**
* @param sessionId the sessionId to set
*/
public void setSessionId(String sessionId) {
this.sessionId = sessionId;
}
}


Now, how do we use this class for add/edit/update/find operation? First, we need to connect to the database so we have to write one XML file called 'persistence.xml' which is part of META-INF folder in your application. It contains properties to connect to the database. Please change as per your requirement.


XML File: persistence.xml

<persistence
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd"
version="1.0">
<persistence-unit name="persist_name">
<class>JPIPersistenceMessage</class>
<properties>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.password" value="password"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/databasename"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.user" value="username"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.read-connections.max" value="3"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.read-connections.min" value="1"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.read-connections.shared" value="true"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.write-connections.max" value="5"/>
<property name="toplink.jdbc.write-connections.min" value="2"/>
<property name="toplink.cache.type.default" value="Full"/>
<property name="toplink.target-database" value="MySQL4"/>
</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>


Let's write manager class (JPIPersistenceManager.java) for database operations. We need to load EntityManagerFactory using persistence-unit name given in persistence.xml file, in this case it is 'persist_name'. Now load EntityManager based on EntityManagerFactory. Now you can call all database operations like add/delete/find on this EntityManager object. User must have to start and close the transaction during each operation. Please go through below code.


Class: JPIPersistenceManager.java

import javax.persistence.EntityManager;
import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import javax.persistence.Persistence;
import javax.persistence.Query;

/**
*
* @author naman
*/
public class JPIPersistenceManager {

private static EntityManagerFactory emf;
private static EntityManager em;

public void createEntityManagerFactory(String persistenceUnitName) {
emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(persistenceUnitName);
}

private static void createEntityManager() {
em = emf.createEntityManager();
}

private static void closeEntityManager() {
em.close();
}

private static void createTransactionalEntityManager() {
createEntityManager();
em.getTransaction().begin();
}

private static void closeTransactionalEntityManager() {
em.getTransaction().commit();
closeEntityManager();
}

public void storeMessage(JPIPersistenceMessage persistenceMessage) {

createTransactionalEntityManager();
em.persist(persistenceMessage);
closeTransactionalEntityManager();
}

public void deleteMessage(long messageCode) {

JPIPersistenceMessage persistenceMessageDelete = findMessage(messageCode);
createTransactionalEntityManager();
em.remove(em.merge(persistenceMessageDelete));
closeTransactionalEntityManager();
}

public JPIPersistenceMessage findMessage(long messageCode) {

createTransactionalEntityManager();
JPIPersistenceMessage jpipm = em.find(JPIPersistenceMessage.class, Long.toString(messageCode));
closeTransactionalEntityManager();
return jpipm;

}

public JPIPersistenceMessage updateMessage(byte[] message, long messageCode) {

createTransactionalEntityManager();
Query query = em.createQuery(
"UPDATE JPIPersistenceMessage p SET p.message = :message where p.messageCode = :messageCode");
query.setParameter("message", message);
query.executeUpdate();
closeTransactionalEntityManager();
return findMessage(new Long(messageCode));
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
JPIPersistenceManager persistenceManager = new JPIPersistenceManager();
persistenceManager.createEntityManagerFactory("persist_name");

// Now call storeMessage,deleteMessage, updateMessage and findMessage on persistenceManager object.
}
}


Hope it should be useful to you. Please let me know any comment on this...

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Simple Spring Application

Spring could be (read intended to be) the one-stop-shop for enterprise application development but at the same time it is light-weight, non-intrusive and modular. Spring allows you to use a particular part/module of spring without bothering about the rest of the spring.


Different types of IoC (Inversion of Control):
Central to the Spring Framework is its Inversion of Control container, which provides a consistent means of configuring and managing Java objects using callbacks. The container is responsible for managing object life cycles: creating objects, calling initialization methods, and configuring objects by wiring them together.
  1. Setter Injection: The examples below are based on setter injection. IoC sets the value of the type parameters of setter methods with the help of bean configuration XML file.
  2. Interface Injection: Spring directly does not support interface injection but there is one thing called autowire, that can be used in spring to achieve some sort of interface injection.
  3. Constructor Injection: constructor injection is almost same like setter injection except only difference that here IoC container initializes the constructor parameters.

Download latest spring framework from http://www.springframework.org

Let's start with sample application using Setter Injection:


First write simple java file call Main.java. It has one subclass call Inject.java which contains some getter and setter methods to set properties. Main class contains main method which loads XML file and set the properties for the Inject class. This code uses spring to load properties from XML file.

The advantage is no need to recompile code again to set different properties. Every time it loads data from XML file. So any change needed just change XML file content.


Code Snapshot:

1. Main.java 

import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {
XmlBeanFactory beanFactory = new XmlBeanFactory(new ClassPathResource(
"context.xml"));
Inject demo = (Inject) beanFactory.getBean("mybean");
System.out.println(demo);
}
}

class Inject {

private String name;
private int age;
private String company;
private String email;
private String address;

public void setAddress(String address) {
this.address = address;
}

public void setCompany(String company) {
this.company = company;
}

public void setEmail(String email) {
this.email = email;
}

public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}

public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}

@Override
public String toString() {
return String.format("Name: %s\n" +
"Age: %d\n" +
"Address: %s\n" +
"Company: %s\n" +
"E-mail: %s",
this.name, this.age, this.address, this.company, this.email);
}
}

2. context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
<bean id="mybean"
class="Inject"
p:name="Naman"
p:age="30"
p:address="Bangalore"
p:company="Personal"
p:email="naman.mehta@gmail.com"/>
</beans>


Code compilation needs three jar files in your classpath.
  1. Spring framework jar file
  2. commons-logging.jar
  3. xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar

I recommend, download latest eclipse IDE from http://www.eclipse.org for Java EE developers. Keep jar files in your path or download plug-ins for spring framework.



Will post other samples in next blog... Let me know your comments for the same...

Thursday, December 24, 2009

How to use Factory Method?

Overview:

The factory method pattern is an object-oriented design pattern. Like other creational patterns, it deals with the problem of creating objects (products) without specifying the exact class of object that will be created. The factory method design pattern handles this problem by defining a separate method for creating the objects, whose subclasses can then override to specify the derived type of product that will be created. More generally, the term factory method is often used to refer to any method whose main purpose is creation of objects.


How to create objects runtime?
  1. Write one Interface which has one method called myMethod().
  2. Write some set of Classes which implements this interface.
  3. Write one Class which has one static method which would return different objects based on the argument pass to that method.
Code Snap-shot:
  1. Interface code.

    1.1 myinterface.java
    public interface myinterface {
    public void myMethod();
    }
  2. Some set of Classes.

    2.1 a.java
    public class a implements myinterface {
    public a() {
    System.out.println("I am a...");
    }

    public void myMethod() {
    System.out.println("I am myMethod from a...");
    }
    }
    2.2 b.java
    public class b implements myinterface {
    public b() {
    System.out.println("I am b...");
    }

    public void myMethod() {
    System.out.println("I am myMethod from b...");
    }
    }
    2.3 b1.java
    public class b1 extends b {
    public b1() {
    System.out.println("I am b1...");
    }

    public void myMethod() {
    System.out.println("I am myMethod from b1...");
    }
    }
    2.4 b2.java
    public class b2 extends b {
    public b2() {
    System.out.println("I am b2...");
    }

    public void myMethod() {
    System.out.println("I am myMethod from b2...");
    }
    }

  3. Class which would return object based on the argument pass.

    3.1 test.java
    public class test {
    public test() {
    System.out.println("I am test class...");
    }

    public static myinterface getMyInterface(String ftpType) {
    try {
    if (ftpType.equals("doc")) {
    return (myinterface)Class.forName("a").newInstance();
    } else if (ftpType.equals("html")) {
    return (myinterface)Class.forName("b").newInstance();
    } else if (ftpType.equals("txt")) {
    return (myinterface)Class.forName("b1").newInstance();
    } else if (ftpType.equals("xml")) {
    return (myinterface)Class.forName("b2").newInstance();
    } else {
    return null;
    }
    } catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println(e);
    return null;
    }
    }

    public static void main (String a[]) {
    myinterface m = test.getMyInterface("txt");
    m.myMethod();
    }
    }

Try this and happy blogging & reading. Any comment pls....