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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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