I'm currently setting up a new Hibernate project and finally getting around to trying out JPA annotations instead of using any Hibernate configuration or mapping files-- what the hell took me so long!!??! Anyhow, among the many gotchas I came across, one was how to deal with using Interfaces with Hi...

Last night I went to the monthly SVJUG meeting. Patrick Linskey from BEA, err Oracle, spoke about JPA 2.0. First off, Patrick is an excellent speaker. I belive he was acuired by BEA via the SolarMetric acquisition, and now he's been acquired by Oracle. If nothing else, he is a much better speaker th...

JavaOne is always a forcing function for announcements, releases, deals, etc. Some happen during the week, some the weeks before - makes it a bit hard to keep up, but now that CommunityOne is over, I'll try to start catching up... New Previews of JavaEE 6 Specifications: • Rajiv announces the l...

Escape from XML Hell Redux: Spring 2.5 Annotation Driven DI. Submitted by Rick Hightower on Fri, 2008/03/07 - 4:50am.   This post is an escape from XML redux. As stated in the last post, there are some who do not like to configure dependency injection (DI) in XML. They call it "XML Hell&qu...