I see lots of questions in Netbeans forums about Templates and project license and developers has problems with configuring it. If you want to add a project license and associate it with your project, you need to add a license property in your project configuration file. The property file “nb-configuration.xml” lies in your project folder, in my case:

Erhan-Bagdemirs-MacBook-Pro:NetBeansProjects merodach$ pwd
HOME/NetBeansProjects

You have to add just”” in your properties:

<properties xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/maven-properties-data/1">
     ...
    <netbeans.hint.license>mylicense</netbeans.hint.license>
     ...
</properties>

and create a new licence file under:
HOME/.netbeans/6.9/config/Templates/Licenses

after a new installation of Netbeans (i have the version 6.9.1), there was no License folder. If you can’t see this folder, just create it and create a license file accordingly:
HOME/.netbeans/6.9/config/Templates/Licenses/license-mylicense.txt

The name of the license file is important and must follow this naming template:
license-${project.license}.txt

${project.license} is the property which you added with ““.

Open “Template Manager” on your IDE, following the menu path “Tools > Templates”. For Java classes the template seems like this if you open template in your editor:

and you can see the path to your license and how it is associated with your project. We make no changes in the template and just create now a new java class to test our license (in my case, apache’s open source license):

JNDI is such an issue which developers configure once and don’t need to take care of it anymore. However, you’ll need to look at documentation everytime it must be configured to refresh your knowledge. But, everytime i need to configure my tomcat, i get headaches. For that reason here is my blog about defining data sources globally and to make them available for all application.

I have read all sections in official tomcat documentations to get my project work with JNDI resources, but it suffers with exception as soon as the application inits. If i put my just into the tomcat’s context.xml, i get an exception “NameNotFoundException: Datasource not bound” while tomcat starts. I have tried tousands of variations to make JNDI resources to make available for all applications under webapps.
Here is the way which works really:

1. Define your JNDI sources under /conf/server.xml

  <GlobalNamingResources>
 
      <Resource acquireIncrement="1"
                auth="Container"
                description="example datasource"
                driverClass="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
                factory="org.apache.naming.factory.BeanFactory"
                idleConnectionTestPeriod="600"
                initialPoolSize="1"
                jdbcUrl="jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/mydb?autoReconnect=true"
                maxIdleTime="600"
                maxPoolSize="2"
                maxStatements="50"
                minPoolSize="1"
                name="mydatasource"
                password="4sfS345se3E"
                preferredTestQuery="SELECT 1"
                type="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource"
                user="myuser"/>
 
  </GlobalNamingResources>

2. add resource links into /conf/context.xml

<ResourceLink global="mydatasource" name="mydatasource"/>

3. don’t forget to add data source libraries (jars) into tomcats /lib for tomcat 6, /shared/lib for tomcat 5. In my case, i am using pooled data source of c3p0.

After restarting tomcat, my application starts without any exception and my database connection is just there.

As soon as my form is submitted to be validated by Bean Validation facilities, i got the following exception:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.Persistence.getPersistenceUtil()

After doing a little research i could solve the problem related to Persistence methods and Bean Validation (see Bean Validation JSR-303).
First of all, i needed to understand what the relation between Persistence and Validation is.
My Project includes Spring 3.1 and Hibernate 3.5 libraries. And i wanted to use JSR303 and annotations.

To enable Bean Validation facility in a spring project, Spring needs a default validator if you don’t give an explicit validator interface like this:

<mvc:annotation-driven validator="globalValidator"/>

globalValidator is a global validator interface, bean, which the developer must provide. But, I wanted to just make my fields be validated according to annotations. For that reason i added into my config just:

<mvc:annotation-driven/>

and added Hibernate-Validator 4.1 into my project.

(Solution) It seems that the Hibernate-Validator version 4.0 works only with J2EE 6 (JEE). Here is the stacktrace:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.persistence.Persistence.getPersistenceUtil()Ljavax/persistence/PersistenceUtil;
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.JPATraversableResolver.isReachable(JPATraversableResolver.java:62)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.DefaultTraversableResolver.isReachable(DefaultTraversableResolver.java:94)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.resolver.SingleThreadCachedTraversableResolver.isReachable(SingleThreadCachedTraversableResolver.java:47)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.isValidationRequired(ValidatorImpl.java:757)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraint(ValidatorImpl.java:324)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForRedefinedDefaultGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:273)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateConstraintsForCurrentGroup(ValidatorImpl.java:256)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validateInContext(ValidatorImpl.java:210)
at org.hibernate.validator.engine.ValidatorImpl.validate(ValidatorImpl.java:119)
at org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.SpringValidatorAdapter.validate(SpringValidatorAdapter.java:86)
at org.springframework.validation.DataBinder.validate(DataBinder.java:692)

Here is the Persistence class API doc of J2EE5:

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/javax/persistence/Persistence.html

and PersistenceUtil has no such a method called getPersistenceUtil() while Persistence has this method in the sixth version:

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/Persistence.html

Don’t use Hibernate-Validator 4.1 with J2EE5 otherwise you could get a headache.