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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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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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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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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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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Let’s be frank: no one likes to be told that something that has worked and worked well for years is broken. But that is where Java architects and developers find themselves today in the face of the evidence that JDBC Type 4 drivers do not adequately support the modern Java application stack. Using Hibernate? Running [...]
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As a follow-up to my posting today, I noticed Dave Rosenberg at C|Net news published an article today on why Oracle’s influence will likely be more quickly realizable than previously thought. He cites’ an IDC report that underscores the importance of the Java platform as one of the primary motivators that drove the acquisition. Nothing [...]
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Over the past few weeks, I have been asked to assert a position when we’ll see changes in the Java ecosystem, particularly now that some of the more incendiary opinions have quieted down. As ever, The Register cuts through the fear, uncertainly and doubt and really gets at the general longing to wake up Java [...]
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