Custom schema generation with Hibernate annotations
Combine Hibernate annotations and a smart naming strategy to generate database schemas automatically -- and still keep your
DBA happy.
John Ferguson Smart,
August 2008
Introduction to Hibernate Search
Get started with Hibernate Search and its universal API, which bring the power of Lucene full-text searching to the Hibernate
ORM framework.
Dr. Xinyu Liu,
July 2008
iBATIS, Hibernate, and JPA: Which is right for you?
Don't let the old object-relational impedance mismatch get the best of you or your data. Compare ORM tools Hibernate and iBATIS
and the Java Persistence API itself, and find out how each one makes it easier to access your RDBMS using Java code.
K. L. Nitin, Ananya S., Mahalakshmi K., and S. Sangeetha,
July 2008
Understanding JPA, Part 2: Relationships the JPA way
Don't let poorly mapped data relationships make a mess of your Java applications: learn how to detangle them with Java 5 annotations
and the Java Persistence API.
Aditi Das,
January 2008
Understanding JPA, Part 1: The object-oriented paradigm of data persistence
Learn how the Java Persistence API takes the burden of database access off of your shoulders and keeps your code coolly object
oriented.
Aditi Das,
January 2008
Flexible reporting with JasperReports and iBATIS
These two open source frameworks combine admirably to make one highly flexible reporting solution. Find out how to leverage
iBATIS's data-handling capabilities in your Jasper reports.
Scott Monahan,
December 2007
Subversion or CVS, Bazaar or Mercurial?
Get a hands-on preview of four leading open source version control systems, then decide which one works best for you.
John Ferguson Smart,
September 2007
Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete
Relational databases are inefficient compared to the new breed of column-oriented databases, says Michael Stonebraker.
Erik Lai,
September 2007
Simplify directory access with Spring LDAP
Why spend all your time handling checked exceptions, closing resources,
and looping through NamingEnumerations when you don't have to? The Spring LDAP framework puts the 'l' (for lightweight) back
into LDAP programming with JNDI.
Sunil D. Patil,
June 2007
This week on JavaWorld.com
For the week of June 25th
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June 2007
Java object queries using JXPath
This article shows how to use the Apache Commons JXPath component to easily query complex Java object trees for data using
the XPath expression language. It covers both basic and advanced features to increase your productivity quickly.
Bart van Riel,
March 2007
The Op Framework: A better Java database framework
The Op Framework is a lightweight, easy-to-configure JDBC access framework that provides rich tracking and tracing functionality.
It decouples your code from your database allowing you to capture and load named sets of data from the file system, enabling
data-driven test cases.
Paul Feuer,
January 2007
SOA for the real world
This article provides a quick understanding of the state of service-oriented architecture deployments in the real-world, the
challenges faced, and the proposed solutions.
Ash Parikh and Murty Gurajada,
November 2006
Querying for persistent objects without a query language
This article describes an easy-to-maintain solution for the
persistence of form-entry data within Web applications. All queries
are compiler checked and implemented in a programmatically
object-oriented way, without using a query language. Furthermore,
the mapping between user interface and business logic is clearly
decoupled from the mapping between business logic and data storage.
Gerald Bachlmayr,
March 2006
Bridge the gap between Struts and Hibernate
Hibernate and Struts are currently among the most popular open
source libraries on the market. Effectively, they are the default
developer selections among competing libraries when building Java
enterprise applications. Although they are often used in
conjunction with one another, Hibernate was not primarily designed
to be used with Struts, and Struts was released years before the
birth of Hibernate. To put them to work together, some challenges
remain. This article identifies some of the gaps between Struts and
Hibernate, particularly related to object-oriented modeling. It
also describes a solution for bridging these gaps that involves an
extension to the Struts framework. All Web applications built upon
Struts and Hibernate can derive benefit from this generic
extension.
Ted He,
March 2006
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Let's talk about exceptions ...
How do you handle exceptions? Do you think upfront about the type of exceptions that you want to catch or do you just let
the outside world handle it?
-- Jeroen van Bergen in JW Blogs
