Can Hibernate and High Availability Live in Harmony?

by Jesse Davis on August 30, 2010

in JDBC,Java

In my last post, I highlighted the reasons why you still need to think about your JDBC driver when using Hibernate. Here, we’ll dive further into the area of codeless configuration, specifically high availability. Continuing with the Hibernate analogy, most people use Hibernate because they want to focus in on database-level coding without getting into [...]

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New Releases Available for ODBC and JDBC

by Mike Frost on August 26, 2010

in JDBC,News,ODBC

They’re here! As I indicated in my last post, Progress DataDirect has some new product releases to announce: Connect/Connect64 for ODBC 6.1 Release Highlights Expanded Bulk Load Support Enhanced Enterprise-Quality Driver Logging Increased Breadth of Support Connect for JDBC 4.2 Release Highlights Expanded Bulk Load Support Increased Breadth of Support The enhancements to our Bulk [...]

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Triple Your Virtualized Application Performance With One Simple Step

August 20, 2010

How’s your performance? No, it’s not a personal question, it’s the most common question that we get from customers about our products. “Sure, you have lots of great features,” they’ll say. “But how’s your performance?” Great question! I have always loved to answer this one but I especially love to do so now. More and [...]

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What’s Coming In Our Fall Releases? Let Me Show You

August 16, 2010

Everyone, myself included, likes to have an idea of what’s coming in order to plan ahead more effectively. For example, if you knew that Apple was about to release a redesign to the iPhone in the next month, you might hold off on buying one until it’s been released. Software professionals are no different – [...]

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Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What You Can Do Today: EF4 Challenges Accomplished with EF1

August 12, 2010

Microsoft’s recently released Entity Framework 4 (EF4) is generating deserved buzz among the .NET community. It seems that people can’t wait to make the jump directly to EF4, even if they haven’t even touched EF1. The perception is that EF1 was not up to snuff when it came to important database-related tasks, but the reality [...]

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Think Hibernate Means You Don’t Have to Worry about Your JDBC Driver? Think Again.

August 4, 2010

It’s interesting to note how often we hear someone say, “Well, I’m using Hibernate, so I don’t really care about JDBC.” In fact, many think they don’t even need a JDBC driver at all, not realizing that the driver operates under Hibernate. Hibernate has a lot of benefits – it is flexible, and does a [...]

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Microsoft’s Recent ADO.NET Survey

August 3, 2010

  The ADO.NET Team at Microsoft recently published the results of a survey to get feedback on what members of the .NET community would like to see in upcoming releases. It’s great to see Microsoft actively soliciting feedback from the .NET community but it’s another thing entirely to actually release product updates that contain the [...]

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Sybase Now SAP’s Main Squeeze: Should SAP – Oracle Customers Brace for a Bitter Breakup?

May 25, 2010

  Last week, the majority of commentary of Sybase was all about SAP’s push to expand into the burgeoning mobile market. The ASA product line has definitely made inroads which will give SAP an immediate leg up,, the real key to this new relationship is this: the business information market. SAP’s purchase of Sybase was [...]

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Gosling’s Gone – What’s Next for Java?

May 6, 2010

Since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, there has been much speculation over what will happen to the Java platform. Just a few weeks ago, the creator of Java, James Gosling, announced his departure from the company, leading to another surge of rumors about the future of Java and the Community Process.  After all the work [...]

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These Go to Eleven: Type 5 JDBC Drivers > Type 4+1

April 27, 2010

If you’ve never seen the above clip from the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, take a minute to watch it. Since we first introduced the idea of JDBC Type 5 drivers to the Java community, one of the two main reactions to it has been: “Type 5 JDBC? That sounds a lot like ‘These [...]

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