Jazoon, the international conference on Java technology, will be held in Zurich from the 22nd to the 25th of June. For four days you will have the chance to go to many technical presentations, with good speakers and also plenty of BOFs. I‘ve sumitted a talk on Java EE 6 and I‘ve also submitted a BOF on the same topic. The BOF is called Why … Continue reading Looking for Java EE 6 expert members to organize a BOF at Jazoon
Just a quick blog to tell you the news: Intellij Idea 8.1 is out. Even faster than before, with new features… god, what a pleasure to use such an IDE. But how do developers do to still use Eclipse ? Ha yes, they install plugins and have to reboot all the time. Continue reading Intellij Idea 8.1 is out
In today’s business world, applications need to access data, apply business logic, add presentation layers, and communicate with external systems. That’s what companies are trying to achieve while minimizing costs, using standard and robust technologies that can handle heavy loads. If that’s your case, you have the right book in your hands.
Java Enterprise Edition appeared at the end of the 1990s and brought to the Java language a robust software platform for enterprise development. Challenged at each new version, badly understood or misused, overengineered, and competing with open source frameworks, J2EE was seen as a heavyweight technology. Java EE benefited from these criticisms to improve and is today focused on simplicity.
Recently I had an opportunity to read Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with Glassfish 3 by Antonio Goncalves. The book has the subtitle “From Novice to Professional” and that’s a pretty accurate description of the book. After reading it a person not familiar with Java EE, but familiar with Java SE should feel comfortable developing a small Java EE application. (…)
I was invited to the YaJUG (Yes Another JUG) in Luxembourg. I gave a talk about what’s coming next in Java EE 6. It was a very nice venue with nice people. I offered 3 copies of my book that were given to different attendees.
This year I‘ve talked a lot about opening up the JCP. I first did a round table at QCon with Rod Johnson and Patrick Curran (chair of the JCP) back in February. Then at Java One (with the same folks) and in May Patrick Curran came to the Paris JUG … and now a BOF at Devoxx with Corina Ulescu about this sensible topic. The … Continue reading Everybody should be able to easily observe JSRs
Groovy 1.6 (still in beta) has introduced a new handy method into the Groovy Console : loadScriptFile. That allows you to load a script and open it into the Groovy Console. Here are the few lines of code to make it work. import groovy.ui.Console; Console console = new Console(); console.run(); console.loadScriptFile(“C:/My documents/MyScript.groovy”); That‘s it. Continue reading Opening a File into the GroovyConsole programmatically
I have two passions : Java and Music. And recently, I faced a common problem while trying to explain Why I love EJBs and Why I love Genesis When I say I love Genesis, I’m talking about the version 1.0 of the band. The one from 1967 to 1975 (even 1977) when it was a progressive rock formation. Then Peter Gabriel left, Phil Collins stopped … Continue reading Genesis, EJBs… it depends which version
Skills Matter & Xebia inaugurate their first conference in Paris around open source called Open Source Exchange. There I’ll have the opportunity to talk about the coming features of Java EE 6. If you are around, do come. It‘s free and full of interesting speakers talking about open source. Continue reading Speaking at the Open Source conference in Paris
I need to include Groovy templates within other Groovy templates, a bit like JSPs that can include child JSPs. This feature doesn‘t exist out of the box so I‘ve developed a new TemplateEngine based on the SimpleTemplateEngine . If you have this kind of need, just check this little post. Continue reading Templates Including Other Templates In Groovy
I’ve started to write a series of tutorials about the testability of Java EE 6 components. The first one : JPA 2.0. Continue reading Tutorials on testing Java EE 6 components
Unit testing is an important topic in projects. J2EE has suffered from a lack of testability and, clearly, got overtaken by light open source containers. Java EE 6 is taking that into account and unit testing an EBJ, for example, will be simple and standardised (through a embeddable container API). As Roberto Chinnici mentioned on his blog, Java EE 6 is scheduled for Q1 2009… … Continue reading Tutorials on Java EE 6 testability
The other day I was at a bar talking to a friend about Entity Beans CMP. We both agreed that, today, this ORM model is crap. But he said, at the time it was created, it was the best we could do In general I would agree with that. We can’t say that the plane of the Wright brothers was crap. Compare with today, it … Continue reading A brief history of Object Relational Mapping
Java EE 6 (JSR 316) is arriving quickly (Q1 2009). With most of the specifications, comes a TcK (Technology Compatibility Kit) and a reference implementation (RI). Here is the list of the main reference implementations : .GlassFish V3 is the reference implementation for EJB 3.1 and Servlet 3.0 .EclipseLink : Java Persistence API (JPA 2.0) .Jersey : Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services (JAX-RS … Continue reading Java EE 6 Reference Implementations
The first edition of my Java EE 5 book has been sold out ! In fact it’s 2500 copies that have been sold in 14 months. It doesn’t sound much like that, but remember that it’s written in French (much smaller market than the English one) and talks about evil technology : EJB ! So, it’s a best seller (JK Rolling , if you read … Continue reading Java EE 5, second edition
Skills Matter & Xebia inaugurated their first conference in Paris around open source called Open Source Exchange! There I’ll have the opportunity to talk about the coming features of Java EE 6>. If you are around, do come. It’s free and full of interesting speakers talking about open source.
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Last Wednesday I‘ve landed at noon in Prague, quickly took a taxi, arrived at the Clarion Congress Hotel where the conference well held, registered, went to my room and had a quick last look at my slides. At 3:50pm I was giving a talk on Building Enterprise Applications Using Glassfish . It was about installing GlassFish, deploying an application, monitor and configure resources as well … Continue reading Back from the TSS Symposium in Prague
At the Tours JUG Continue reading EJB 3.1, What’s up
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It‘s the third time I‘ve been asked if in JPA you can persist the attributes of your entity in several tables. The answer is yes. It has a performance impact (each simple query will use joins) but it can be very helpful when you need to map your objects into an existing database. Here is an example of an Address entity that persist its data … Continue reading Primary and secondary table with JPA
Soon (18–20 June) starts the TSS Symposiumconference in Prague. A great conference with good speakers in a beautiful city. Well, this time I‘ll be speaking there. In fact, I‘ll be giving two talks : Building Enterprise Applications Using Glassfish . I‘ll talk about administrating GlassFish instances in general and in a cluster in particular. In this session, you will learn how to deploy Web and … Continue reading Speaking at the TSS Symposium
Today I only attended two presentations and had to leave the conference for some rest. I wonder if I‘m just exhausted about too much JavaOne, or if I‘ve got a virus. This is the email that we received this morning : URGENT PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY FROM JAVAONE TEAM The JavaOne conference team has been notified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health about an … Continue reading A virus at JavaOne
It is my first JavaOne, so I can‘t really compare. But something tells me that 5 years ago JavaOne was about… Java. Today, it feels different. There are plenty of technical sessions about other languages and on the top selling books at JavaOne, three are about other languages (Groovy and JavaFX). Even James Gosling talked about Scala . And I have to be honest. JavaOne … Continue reading JavaOne : a nostalgic portuguese touch
Today was an interesting day at JavaOne. I first started meeting a giant Duke in the busy corridors of the Moscone Center Then I met Aaron Houston (the Sun guy who helps the JUGs around the world) who gave the Paris JUG a Sun Spot . The idea is to use the spot in a collaborative way so the JUG can develop any kind of … Continue reading JavaOne : Opening up the JCP
Today it was JavaOne‘s kick off. It started with a keynote with Rich Green. It was concentrated in mobile devices (Amazon presented its Kindle eBook) and, of course, JavaFX took a big place. I‘m still a bit sceptical about JavaFX but Rich Green said that really soon it will be running everywhere, in all kind of mobile devices. And then came Neil Young. He talked … Continue reading JavaOne : My Top 3 Issues
