As program manager, Jonathan manages DataDirect for .NET and Windows platforms and SQL Engine technologies while continuing to fuel adoption of XQuery in the market place. Jonathon has also led several Java specification request efforts which contributed to the J2SE and J2EE platforms and received patents, and he is co-author of the book JDBC API Tutorial and Reference, Third Edition.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Check out Julie Lerman’s excellent presentation on EF4 and WCF. Available on slideshare.
Some recommended reading for those of you who are looking at what NHibernate 2.0 offers in comparison to Entity Framework 4.0. While it is a fairly subjective view point Ayende Rahien does a good job dissecting the differences with a view to considering the pros and cons. Check out the blog posting here.
Since the announcement of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 we have seen torrent of requests from people looking to use our Oracle EF provider with VS 2010. The good news is that we are planning to support it officially in our upcoming service pack, due early next year. The even [...]