tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22384399693007663582008-10-07T13:25:47.714-05:00Mostly Java oriented but whatever cross my mind and sort of deserve some postingEmmanuel Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12946048387636548675noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2238439969300766358.post-46565998701027881042008-10-07T13:24:00.002-05:002008-10-07T13:25:47.726-05:00

Ayende, one of the active bees behind the NHibernate portfolio, has a nice review of Hibernate Search in Action on his blog.By the way, Ayende has ported Hibernate Search to .net : NHibernate.Search. I don't think there is documentation specific to the project but the Hibernate Search documentation is just as useful.I don't know Ayende personally, but I can only admire someone that blogs more

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We just had our third review of Hibernate Search in Action. Receiving this feedback has been a humble experience. Lot's of good reviews (good) and some critical ones (even better). Every imperfection we left aside came back in the spot lights of our reviewers.Based on this feedback, we have been working hard the last two weeks to improve a lot the manuscript: clearer code transcripts with more

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There is a tiny little utility that let's you inspect JAR/WAR/EAR files on the Mac OS platform. The software is available here. Install it. To open a JAR, simply right click and chose JarInspector as the application. I personally did not set JarInspector as my default .jar application to let the default JAR launcher kicks in but I have been very close to.Amongst the useful features: navigate in

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I have always been annoyed quite a bit by automatic Out of Office messages. This summer was no exception. So here are my top reasons for not doing it. Nobody cares about your trip is Egypt really! If I am sending you an email, I am not on vacations. Do you really want to piss me off? Email is an asynchronous media. Nobody should expect a synchronous response. If you don't answer a message, a)

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That's now official, I handed over the last chapter to the publisher yesterday. All chapters will be available to the early access program in the next few days. The journey is not finished yet. A lot of reviewing and correction are at sight. If you have feedback, now is the time :)The last last few chapters out cover: Hibernate Search filters Performance Cluster and scalabilityFilters are a

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This tutorial will show you how to create a queue in JBoss AS 5 (which uses JBoss Messaging 1.4.1), send a message to a remote queue and listen to the queue using a Message Driven Bean.I have been playing with JMS queues and MDBs in JBoss AS 5 today to complete the clustering chapter of Hibernate Search in Action and went through more bumps than I should have. Let me share what I've learnt.

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... and uses it as their iTunes Store infrastructure. Now it's broke!I updated my iPhone firmware this morning *as requested by Apple* and the process is hung because the iTunes Store is down. I now have a totally bricked legit iPhone: no call, no text. Great!Apple, I am very angry at you. Why are you penalizing your legit customers by not allowing the phone to be activated without your blessing.

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We have just pushed another set of chapters for Hibernate Search in Action and reached the symbolic limit of 2/3. Yoohoo! We have also enhanced some of the existing chapters based on the feedbacks we received and the perseverance of our editor. They have just shipped as part of the early access program available in ebook format. I am very happy with the new chapters especially the description of

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I have been talking, writing, preaching Bean Validation in the past six months. A few interesting links came up recently: The list of blog entries I wrote. Probably the most palatable content but long. An interview with Dick Wall and Carl Quinn from the Javaposse I did at Javapolis 07 (newly renamed Javoxx) . I hated to listen to myself, hopefully you won't. The interview also covers Hibernate

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I just discovered the reason why TimeMachine was backing up so much data. I forgot to exclude my Maven and Ivy repositories :o) Here is a good tip to discover which files are backed up. You need to have the Developer Tools installed. When TimeMachine backs up Launch /Developer/Applications/InstrumentsSelect File ActivityOpen the default target combo box and attach the backupd process.Start

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Andy posted some of the reasons why you would want to use the JBoss subscription based platforms rather than the .org projects. During this exercise, he hinted some of the reasons why JBoss moved from a model where the community version was supported to a model where an enterprise platform is supported. He did not go far enough in his explication for my taste. One of the fundamental reason (

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With my regular job(s), the Hibernate Search book and a life going on at the same time, I had to find ways to boost my productivity. Here is a list of some tools I am using in no particular order: ThinkingRock (ad the GTD methodology): I am reading Getting Things Done by David Allen and ThinkingRock is the best tool I have found to help you follow the methodology. GTD is all about putting all

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If Leopard asks you if "you are sure you want to open this application which was downloaded from the web" every single time, read further. I installed Mac OS X Leopard yesterday. Leopard started to warn me about applications downloaded from the Internet. Every single time I open them (not only the first time) I have to confirm it's a safe app. I first thought Apple believed I was both stupid (

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I will be at the Philadelphia's Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference speaking about Hibernate Search on March 27th (Thursday). The conference has some interesting talks around the new wave of development frameworks (Seam, Rails and so on). There is even a Battle of the frameworks! a Rountable Debate which sounds very promising. I will definitely try to sneak into it ;) Come by and

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Hibernate Annotations 3.3.1.CR1 and Hibernate EntityManager 3.3.2.CR1 are available for download here. I have done a fix-athlon in the last few days to ready them for JBoss AS 5. There is a ton of bug fixes especially in the Java Persistence scanning area and in edge mapping supports. Some minor new features have been added as well (transparent integration with the latest Hibernate Search

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In some specific cases, Lucene 2.3.0 can corrupt your index. It happens in very specific cases: you use autoCommit=false on IndexWriter or multiple threads are adding documents where some have term-vector enabled fields and some don'tThese particular situations do not occur in the regular use of Hibernate Search, but upgrading to Lucene 2.3.1 works fine, so go

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I am very please to announce that a book on Hibernate Search is on its way. John Griffin and I are co-authoring Hibernate Search in Action from Manning. The goal of this book is to give a good practical understanding of Hibernate Search and guide people through the steps of adding full text search capability into their Hibernate based application. The book also covers the necessary Lucene

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It has been interesting to follow the recent communications made by Rod Johnson as you can transparently read SpringSource's strategy. I wanted to blog about it during the last vacations but never fully finished the entry (they were vacations after all). Some elements are outdated now (including SpringSource acquiring covalent) but here it goes just refreshed with links. Rod Johnson has been

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For the fellows based in Paris or nearby, a new Java User Group has been formed. I expect lots of good content from this user group thanks to some cross-pollination with the OSSGTP group and the industry knowledge of the two founders. The first meeting is planned for February 12th, check out the announcement here.

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Android is the new mobile platform developed by Google. They released the SDK yesterday. Basically a Linux kernel, a mobile optimized virtual machine running Java, and a set of API to play with the phone. First of all, the usual disclaimer. I am not a mobile developer, I am not much of a UI developer, but I am a Java developer and mobile consumer. Anyway, I'll give you some of my thoughts.

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Yesterday was the official public birth of G2One, a new company dedicated to Groovy and Grails training, consulting and support. I am happy to see Guillaume (Groovy lead) and Graeme (Grails lead) jumping into the Professional OpenSource bandwagon. Good luck to you guys, it is as stressful as exciting :) Speaking of it, I will be speaking Wednesday 17th to the Grails eXchange. One talk about

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Release Candidate for Hibernate Search 3.0.0 Hibernate Search 3.0.0.CR1 is now out. This release is mainly the last bits of new features and polishing before the final version. The next cycle will be dedicated to bug fixes (of any bug that pops up), as well as test suite and documentation improvements. Thanks to Hardy for the new getting started section (this should ease the path for newcomers)

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Max Ross and Maulik Shah from the Hibernate Shards team at Google got interviewed by the Google Developer Podcast. It's a nice and easy access 30 mins introduction of Hibernate Shards: how does it work, where does it come from, what are Hibernate Shards do's and don'ts, what's the secret plan to take over the world... Insightful. One of the cool stuffs they added in the latest beta is support for

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Steve and I had a discussion yesterday about loggers. I know what you're thinking: hasn't log been a solved problem for years now? Plus it's boring ;) That's why usually, when a discussion starts on the subject, I tend to carefully not listen. But because it's Steve, and because he has some specific requirement for the next Hibernate Core version, I decided to ignore my own rule. It turned out

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I will be at Jazoon (Zurich) to talk about Hibernate Search on Tuesday. I'll hang around Monday and Tuesday, so feel free to pass by the JBoss booth for a chat.

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