Stephans Blog

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about wiki backends. Others have thought about new weblog backends. From my point of view, most wikis in the Java world use ORM oder mostly JDBC backends. Currently there is a lot of buzz about JPA. JPA is a great standard to unify ORM apis and would enable users […]

That’s great news, more competition in the ORM and JPA space.
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One reason for me to move to JPA is to move away from Hibernate. Since being part of the JBoss ecosphere, Hibernate forums adapted to the spirit of the JBoss forums. There are other examples, but for one example see here. They like to be part of JBoss and not be part of JBoss just […]

JPA with Spring works fine. The only problem is the generateDdl attribute for the EntityManager. This makes the EM generate SQL DDL statements to create tables. But if there are already tables in the database, they are dropped and created new. Is there a configuration to generate tables when there are none, but keep them […]

After battling some days with JPA at last it now works. There were some hours when I thought going back to plain Hibernate. Trying the JPA implementation from Glassfish (the Oracle sponsored Toplinks essentials) which didn’t work and some problems with KODO (from BEA), I got the application working with Hibernate JPA. What bothered me […]

I’ve been thinking about 1.4 support for some time now. With TestNG as an example, it should be possible to both support the new 1.5 features like autoboxing and varargs and supply a 1.4 jar, any ideas and suggestions?
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There is a Lenovo vs. Apple discussion raging on in the blogosphere. All posts claim that Lenovo is so much cheaper than Apple hardware. Well, either I’m too stupid to configure laptops at the lenovo and apple stores, or I value the difference much less then others or the claim that Lenovo is so much […]

Fixed some bugs and added some minor improvements gathered by the 1.0 release feedback cycle.
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