Netuality

You have to know that I’ve tried. Honestly, I did. I hoped to be able to read each and every page of “Java persistence with Hibernate” (revised edition of “Hibernate in action”), by Christian Bauer and Gavin King. But, I gave up before reading a third of it, then ...

Java Caching System is one of the mainstream opensource and free Java caches*, along with OSCache, EHCache and JbossCache. Choosing JCS may be the subject of an article by itself, since this API has a vastly undeserved reputation of being a buggy, slow cache. Exactly this reputation has motivated the ...

Disclaimer : this review is based on the MEAP draft. Things might be (a little) different in the final version.

My first contact with Tapestry was more than 18 months ago. Back then, I was interested to find a web framework for integration with our custom Avalon-based (using the now-obsoleted) Phoenix server*. The web interface was ment to be backoffice stuff, for simple administration tasks as well as statistics reports ...

There is a certain contradiction which appears in modern projects concerning the unit testing strategy. On one hand, there is a powerful assertion stating that business logic testing should be completely disconnected from the database. This makes perfect sense in a certain way : the tests should check the business logic ...

Last week, while optimizing a Java app, we have stumbled upon an interesting trick.

Well, I suppose it’s interesting since I haven’t been able to find out any trace of it in Hibernate docs or FAQ.

So, you are using Hibernate for O/R persistence layer of your ...

I’m being part of the development team for migration of a mainframe ERP to Java technology. A preliminary version of the app shows no less than 878 tables (see image). It could be much more, knowing that quite a lot of “lists of values” – which are not supposed to ...