best way to keep data in the form when failing to submit in JSP

Problem:
When submiting the page, sometime it fails because of the validation. At this time, the data in the page  are lost, and we have to type everything again.
Solution:
Declare the varaible at the beginning, and assign the value from the request. But if it's first fime calling the page, assign it as empty string.

        <%
        String xmlStr=request.getParameter("xmlStr");if(xmlStr==null)xmlStr="";
        %>
         <form method=GET >
                <tr>
                    <td><textarea name="xmlStr" rows="12" cols="100"><%=xmlStr%></textarea></td>                   
                </tr>              
               <tr><td><input type=submit name=submit value='Post'/></td></tr>
            </table>           
        </form>
        <%
         if(request.getParameter("submit") != null){
          
                  if(xmlStr == null || xmlStr.equals("")) {
                  out.println("<p>xmlStr empty!</p>");  
                 return;
           }         
           // do whatever
         }
         %>
 

how to handle binary data such as image in soap based web service

Web Service Part:
supposed that  you have a picture named Desert.jpg in package resources

@WebService(serviceName = "PictureService")
@Stateless()
public class PictureService {   
      
     @WebMethod(operationName = "getImage")
    public byte[] getImage( ) throws IOException {
   URL resource = this.getClass().getResource("/resources/Desert.jpg");
   InputStream in = resource.openStream();
     ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
    for(int read; (read = in.read(buf)) != -1;) {
        bos.write(buf, 0, read);
     }
        return bos.toByteArray()s;
    }
   
}

Client part as Servlet:

public class test extends HttpServlet {
   
    protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
      
        try {
            PictureService_Service service = new PictureService_Service();
            PictureService port=service.getPictureServicePort(); 
           
            response.setContentType("image/jpeg");  
            OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();  
           
            byte[] content = port.getImage();
             
            out.write(content);  
           
            out.close();
        } catch (IOException_Exception ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(test.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
            }
   
    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        processRequest(request, response);
    }
   
    @Override
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        processRequest(request, response);
    }
   
    @Override
    public String getServletInfo() {
        return "Short description";
    }
}

Unmarshalling from XML file and marshalling to XML file

            ObjectFactory of = new ObjectFactory();
            FlightInfo sh = of.createFlightInfo();
            //Unmarshalling
            JAXBContext ctx = JAXBContext.newInstance(sh.getClass().getPackage().getName());
            Unmarshaller unm = ctx.createUnmarshaller();
            sh= (FlightInfo)unm.unmarshal(new File("flight.xml"));

           //do something with object sh

            //Marshalling
            try {               
                javax.xml.bind.Marshaller marshaller = ctx.createMarshaller();
                marshaller.setProperty(javax.xml.bind.Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, "UTF-8");
                marshaller.setProperty(javax.xml.bind.Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
                marshaller.marshal(sh, new FileOutputStream(new File("flight.xml")));
            } catch (javax.xml.bind.JAXBException ex) {
            // Handle exception
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("global").log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            }    

How to convert String to XMLGregorianCalendar

String mydatetime="2011-09-29T08:55:00";
XMLGregorianCalendar xgc=DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(mydatetime);

How to cast a list in inheritance

For Example:
public class Person {};
public class Student extends Person{};
List<Person> persons=new ArrayList();
List<Student> students=new ArrayList();

persons=students;

how can you assign students to persons? the last line will throw an error.

Example of Inheritance in EJB

table structure

create table "APP".PERSON
(
 ID INTEGER not null primary key,
 NAME VARCHAR(256),
 ADDRESS VARCHAR(256),
 PHONE VARCHAR(256),
 EMAIL VARCHAR(256),
 TYPE VARCHAR(256)
)



person.java

import javax.persistence.*;



@Entity
@Table(name = "PERSON")
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE)
@DiscriminatorColumn(name = "TYPE", discriminatorType = DiscriminatorType.STRING,length=1)
public class Person implements java.io.Serializable {

@Id
@Column(name = "ID")
private int id;
@Column(name = "NAME")
private String name;
@Column(name = "ADDRESS")
private String address;
@Column(name = "PHONE")
private String phone;
@Column(name = "EMAIL")
private String email;
@Column(name = "TYPE")
private String type;

public Person() {
}
public int getId() { return id; }
public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; }
public String getName() { return name; }
public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; }
public String getAddress() { return address; }
public void setAddress(String address) { this.address = address; }
public String getPhone() { return phone; }
public void setPhone(String phone) { this.phone = phone; }
public String getEmail() { return email; }
public void setEmail(String email) { this.email = email; }
public String getType() { return type; }
public void setType(String type) { this.type = type; }
}

student.java

import javax.persistence.DiscriminatorValue;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
@Entity
@DiscriminatorValue(value="S")
public class Student extends Person {
    public Student() {
    }
}

employee.java

import javax.persistence.DiscriminatorValue;
import javax.persistence.Entity;@Entity
@DiscriminatorValue(value="E")
public class Employee extends Person{
    public Employee() {
    }
} 

How to get max value for identity column in EJB-QL

For example,
I have a table Bookorder  with an Identity column Id.

I can execute the following:
Query query1 = em.createQuery("SELECT MAX(b.id) FROM Bookorder b");       
int bo_max=(Integer)query1.getSingleResult();

Please notice that it's Integer and not int when casting the result of query.