The Curious case of Field and Property Access in Hibernate

Have you ever wondered whether placing Hibernate annotations over both the fields and getters(properties) in an entity class would land you in trouble. Well as Rajdeep and I discovered, if you haven’t tried it out, it will.

Creating Seam-Hibernate Maven archetype

It all started when me and Vaibhav were getting our feet wet in a new project. The project was based on Seam and Hibernate. While trying to create sample projects involving Seam and Hibernate, we found most of the constructs were using Ant as build tool, thus limiting stuff like reporting, standard build lifecycle. Further they used [...]

Integrating Spring 3 with JPA 2

I have been working on Grails recently and am amazed with the productivity gains it gives. Grails is great for giving you a kick-start, it uses convention over configuration and gives you things such as ORM, transaction management, dependency injection among others, without you writing a single line of configuration. I decided to mimic the [...]

Test your Hibernate Search integration end to end

Testing Hibernate Search integration end to end can be a quite complicated task, which can be attributed to its dependencies on both data and indexes. A test framework built by a combination of HsqlDB and DbUnit can provide a solution that can overcome the fore mentioned complexity.

Web 2.0 Expo 2009 San Francisco

San Francisco 31 March – 3 April: Web 2.0 Expo brought together people with diverse professional backgrounds, having interest in Web 2.0, at Mascone Centre in San Francisco. San Francisco Bay Area, also known as Silicon Valley boasts of high concentration of information technology companies of all sizes ranging from biggies like Intel Corporation to [...]