Adding File Upload to your projects

This step-by-step was created for developers in my organisation. Let me know if it needs changing.

!THERE IS NO NEED FOR A BACKING BEAN

• Created a new EJB3 project (Called GUI)

• Ran the seam gen  to create a new project (./seam.sh new-project GUI)

• Added the libraries commons-fileupload-1.1.jar, commons-io-1.2.jar, tomahawk.jar, commons-lang-2.1, commons-collections03.1,jar.jar to the lib folder

• Refreshed the project in Eclipse

• Added seam.jar, tomahawk.jar, myfaces-api-1.1.3.jar and sevlet-api.jar to the build path (not needed to easier to work with eclipse)

• Changed myFacesLifeCycleBug to true in components.xml - may be the version I am using

• Added the files jsf-comp.taglib.xml and tomahawk.taglib.xml to resources/web-inf directory

• Added Extensions Filters to support tomahwk. These changes can be found under

 <!-- My Faces Extensions Filter --> in web.xml

• Referenced the tomahawk.taglib.xml resource in the web.xml file

(see under <!-- MyFaces Tomahawk Library --> in web.xml)

• Created a MANIFEST.MF file to tell the archives where to find the jar files (in the ear of course)

• Made the following changes to the build file to include the items required for tomahawk

• Under build-jar where the jar file is created I added the manifest as below

<jar jarfile="${ear.dir}/GUI.jar" basedir="${classes.dir}"  manifest="resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF">

• Under build-ear under the fileset lib.dir needed to include jar files

(see <!--For Tomahawk--> in build.xml for build-ear)

• Under build-ear I needed to include the manifest to where the ear gets created

<ear basedir="${ear.dir}" appxml="${ear.dir}/META-INF/application.xml" destfile="${dist.dir}/fileUploadGUI.ear" manifest="resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF"></ear>

• Created class UploadSample (see code in sample zip)

• Using the home.xhtml (because it is there)

• add the namespace

  mlns:t="http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk"

   

• add

  <t:inputFileUpload storage="file" value="#{upload.uploadFile}" styleClass="boxInput" id="fileUpload" ></t:inputFileUpload>

   

• the value is the bijected field in UploadSample

• The action is upload.upload. This is found in UploadSample

<h:commandButton value="Upload" action="#{upload.upload}"></h:commandButton>

• And it needs to be wrapped in a h:form -- since I am using a button and submitting     

<h:form  enctype="multipart/form-data">

• Build and Run.(I am in the all server)

The sample file can be downloaded from our site[base2Services.com downloads|http://www.base2services.com/downloads/gui.zip]