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Had some time to package the Getting Started example code and put it on the CaveatEmptor Website. So all you MEAP readers have something you can actually run without copy/pasting from the PDFs. I should probably mention that the unedited draft you are reading with MEAP is not completely in sync with the code I just packaged. Well, mostly the Ant build files are a little different, so that shouldn't be a big problem.
Finally, the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) has the PDFs of /Java Persistence with Hibernate/ online. You can get access on the book website. Some caveats:
I was looking for a good way to integrate DBUnit with Seam, so that I can prepare a dataset for functional testing without too much hassle. This is what I came up with, a test superclass that integrates with Seam and adds DBUnit operations that run before and after every test method.
Java Persistence with Hibernate
No /Hibernate in Action/ anymore. It has been a while since my last update on the book status, so here is a heads up. A lot of things happened in the past three months:
Persistent collections are a feature!
In the past few months I got the impression that something in our explanation of object/relational mapping has gone a little wrong. I'm still not sure that this is the fault of any documentation or presentation slide, it's just something that naturally happened...
I found a posting from Emmanuel with the following link to the JDK bug tracking system .
Testing EJB3 apps with TestNG
It would be great if I could use the TestNG plugin for IntelliJ but I'm still on version 4.5 and its only available for IDEA 5. Tried to switch a few times but the XML editor just doesn't work anymore and throws exceptions faster than I can click. I want the XML editor of IDEA 3.x back, it just worked and didn't have the goofy indentation routines of 4.x...
Steve just committed a new interface and extension point to Hibernate Core. We can finally plug-in custom Session context management into Hibernate. For those of you who already know getCurrentSession() in Hibernate 3.0, this new extension enables the same without a JTA environment.
Generic DAO pattern with JDK 5.0
One of the things in Hibernate in Action that needs serious improvement is the section about data access objects, the good old DAO pattern.
As promised, a current snapshot of my work on Hibernate in Action, second edition. The CaveatEmptor alpha2 release has some quite interesting new examples:
