Bio
Gavin King is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He's the creator of Hibernate, a popular persistence solution for Java and of the Ceylon programming language. He contributed to the Java Community Process as JBoss and then Red Hat representative for the EJB and JPA specifications and as spec lead and author of the CDI specification. He's currently a major contributor to the design of Jakarta Data and Jakarta Persistence. He lives in Barcelona with his wife and three daughters. His active interests include theoretical physics and quantum technologies.
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Wiki Road Map
In case you're wondering, this site is running on a new wiki platform that Christian has developed over the last few months. We'll use this wiki for the new seamframework.org site and, eventually, port hibernate.org across. For now, this blog is a perfect way to validate the content and plugin architecture and test the overall stability of the platform.
Podcast from JavaOne
The jboss.org team has posted video of an interview we did at JavaOne this year. Well, I hope it's interesting, I think I come off a bit too /easygoing/ at first, and what is up with that limp wrist? Apparently I'm in need of some masculinity training!
More XML than code?
In this article on JavaLobby, Daniel Spiewak, the creator of something called ActiveObjects takes some pot shots at Hibernate, and compares Hibernate negatively with Ruby's ActiveRecord and ActiveObjects. Now, I'm always interested to read informed criticism, but in this case, Daniel seems to be comparing these brand new frameworks against Hibernate2, released in 2003, before I joined JBoss. He says:
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Daniel Spiewak responded to More XML than code?
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RichFaces 3.1 released!
The RichFaces team has released RichFaces 3.1.0. This release merges the functionality of Ajax4JSF and RichFaces into a single package and adds a number of new components. You can get the new release here or try out the online demo.
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Check out the new blog! How do you like the /text/ styling?
EE6 wishlist part II: JSF
This is the second installment of a series. Part I is here: