In Relation To

I'm sitting in at Michael Nygard's talk at JAOO about handling failure in production systems. He wrote 'Release It!' a pattern book that describes common anti-patterns and illustrates how they can cause massive downtimes and lost business. During his talk he called out ORM Tools to be bad at handling some of these which urged me to make this blog.

We recently started updating and adding screencasts of various functionality in JBoss Tools and Developer studio at JBoss Tools Movies.

Well, you're in luck!

Just came back from Nürnberg where I was invited to present Hibernate Search at the Herbstcampus conference. It was the first year for this conference with the hope of making it an established yearly event. Given that already in the first year over 200 people showed up Herbstcampus might be on the right track.

I have written an article / tutorial over on Thinking in Seam regarding using Hibernate Search with JBoss Seam. You can read the article by following this link. Comments are, as ever, appreciated.

Quite a few folks have asked about the new Hibernate Core modules introduced with the 3.3 release: what each is for, when to use which, etc. I wanted to take a bit to describe what each of the main modules is for and when/how you would use certain combinations. (These modules also define maven artifacts; all Hibernate Core artifacts use org.hibernate groupId).

Hibernate Core 3.3.1 has just been released with its artifacts published to the JBoss Maven Repository. This release fixed a serious issue with CurrentSessionContext (SessionFactory.getCurrentSession()) when running on IBM WebSphere. It also includes quite a few improvements to the enhanced id generators. For details about all the changes in this release, check out it's changelog

I've written a new article describing how to integrate Seam Security with OpenLDAP, using the new features in Seam 2.1.0. You can read the article here. Comments are welcome here, enjoy.

I will be talking about JBoss Tools and Developer Studio at JAOO in Aarhus, Denmark 28th September. You should also be able to catch me hanging out at the JBoss/Red Hat booth Monday to Wednesday.