Software is too expensive to build cheaply…

I gave a talk at the AJUG-QLD tonight on the new features of Hibernate 3.0.
Here are the slides

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Tags: Hibernate

I’d introduced a Hibernate user type into the code base a few days ago. I’d based it on an example in the (more or less) wonderful book Hibernate in Action Naturally, however, I’d copied the example with a bug in it!

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Tags: Hibernate

A while back, I blogged about how Hibernate named queries rock I found another reason why they rock today: it lets you hide what your persistent properties are called.

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Tags: Hibernate, patterns

I’m now working on my second project with Hibernate, having delivered the first, and I’m playing with some of the features I didn’t have time to figure out last time. And I have to say: named queries rock, big time.

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Tags: design, Hibernate

It can be pretty useful to supply dependencies to domain objects that you’re loading via Hibernate This is where Hibernate Interceptors come into play.
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Tags: Hibernate, ioc