A Java geek

Spring Persistence with Hibernate

This review is about Spring Persistence with Hibernate by Ahmad Reza Seddighi from Packt Publishing. Facts 15 chapters, 441 pages, 38€99This book is intended for beginners but more experienced developers can learn a thing or twoThis book covers Hibernate and Spring in relation to persistence Pros The scope of this book is what makes it very interesting. Many books talk about Hibernate and many talk about Spring.

Java

Hibernate hard facts – Part 5

This is the 5th post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In this article, I will show you how to manage logical DELETE in Hibernate

JavaEE

Clustering Tomcat

In this article, I will show you how to use Apache/Tomcat in order to set up a load balancer. I know this has been done a zillion time before, but I will use this setup in my next article (teaser, teaser) so at least I will have it documented somewhere. Apache Tomcat is the reference JSP/container since its inception. Despite a lack of full JEE support, it certainly has its appeal. The reasons behind using a full-featured commercial JEE application server are not always technical ones.

Development

Free online SVN repositories

This week, I searched for free online SVN repositories for closed-source projects. Of course, there are plenty of sites offering services for OpenSource projects: Google Code, SourceForge, etc. It may seem amazing, but everybody does not necessarily want to expose its code to the world. From what I’ve found, there aren’t so many free SVN repositories around.

Java

Hibernate hard facts - Part 4

This is the 4th post in the Hibernate hard facts focus series. In this article, I will show the subtle differences between get() and load() methods.

Technical

Seamless installation: convention over configuration

Today, I will not take the role of the architect that knows how to deliver applications but instead I will play the end-user part. In a previous post, I was tasked to put a whole development infrastructure in place. A continuous integration server was indeed in order. I took a look at some, but I was really dumbfounded when I tried Hudson. Features are not what stroke me at that time (although Hudson’s features did serve me well) but only the ease of installation.

Technical

Securing middleware products

My work is IT architecture, meaning I focus on the early steps of a project. Once the application is in production, I usually leave it to systems and production engineers. For example, for JVM fine tuning, most of the clients I worked for have people that have the right skills to do that. Nevertheless, I need sometimes to sully my nails.

Book

Maven The complete reference

This review is about Sonatype’s Maven: The complete reference by Tim O’Brien, John Casey, Brian Fox, Jason Van Zyl, Eric Redmond and Larry Shatzer. Disclaimer: I learned Maven from Sonatype’s site 3 years ago. I found it was a great tool to learn Maven. Now that I have a little more experience in the tool, I tried to write this review in an objective manner.

JavaEE

Context root tweaking

JEE never ceases to amaze me. Even when I think I’m on top and I know all there’s to know about webapps, I’m in for a surprise. Good news is, whatever you think you know about a subject, there’s still room for one more fact. Bad news is, I’m deeply disturbed by what I learned.

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