Tag: java

If you are developing with Hibernate, chances are you may have come across the (now replaced) Hibern8IDE, or more recently the JBoss Hibernate Tools plugin for Eclipse which allows you to test HQL queries against your defined objects and mappings.

The Hibernate Tools Suite looks like a similar type tool, but this is a plugin for Netbeans. Looks like it is worth checking out if you are working with Hibernate and developing with Netbeans.

On the java.net ‘Java Champions’ page, there is a list of videos for download including interviews with James Gosling. The interviews currently cover JUG groups, and James Gosling commenting on Open Source Java.

There are two good articles on EJB3.0 and the Java Persistence API (JPA) this month:

“Writing Performant EJB Beans in the Java EE 5 Platform (EJB 3.0) Using Annotations” on the java.sun.com site, which provides performance comparisons between different annotation properties and describes what effect they have on performance. This is interesting information as it allows you to make an informed decision about how to define and configure your Entities in terms of performance.

OnJava.com has an introductory article on the JPA, “Standardizing Java Persistence with the EJB3 Java Persistence API” which walks you through from the begining – what is a Domain Model, what are Entities, what are annotations, what is the EntityManager etc. This is a good introductory article to get you started if you have not yet looked into EJB3.0

Romain Guy presented JavaZone 2006 yesterday and has a link to his presentation slides and screenshots of his demo application on his blog.

If you didn’t see or you didn’t hear about the Aerith demo at JavaOne this year, you must check this out, as it will completely change your mind about what is possible in Swing.