Dedicace des auteurs Français ce samedi au Monde En Tique (Paris)

Le samedi 23 octobre à partir de 15h et jusqu’à 18h, Antonio Goncalves, Arnaud Héritier et moi allons faire une après-midi dédicace au Monde En Tique à Paris, la librairie spécialisée (dans l’informatique notamment). L’idée est de faire une petite après midi entre geek tendance Java. Que vous achetiez un livre ou pas, venez … [...]

Book review: JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni

I’ve been reading JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni published by Packt Publishing. I must say that I quite enjoyed the book because it is complementing my knowledge perfectly. I know Java EE 5 and 6 quite well, I’ve been working on it, promoting it, yada yada yada. But when it comes to details … [...]

Book review: Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna

Over the last few days, I have been reading Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna published by Manning. I must admit, this is a much easier task than writing Hibernate Search in Action ;) Summary first: very easy to read, a gold mine of knowledge and tips on a subject that is essential to the life … [...]

Answering questions at JavaRanch + free books

I am doing a session on Hibernate Search all this week at JavaRanch. Manning will give away free books of Hibernate Search in Action for the occasion.If you have questions on Hibernate Search, express yourself :) [...]

JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and

Great news this week: JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it. Hibernate Search 3.1 is out. A lot of good stuffs like performance improvements at indexing and querying time and some cool new features like the analyzer declaration framework … [...]

Hibernate Search 3.1 RefCard

DZone has a nice Hibernate Search 3.1 6-pages ref card. It is packed with:The list of annotations and their descriptions Hibernate Search’s main APIs Lucene’s most useful query types Quick examples involving mappings and API usage (including the new analyzer declaration framework)It’s free but you need to register.Speaking of the devil. … [...]

Book review and NHibernate Search

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 … [...]

Hibernate Search book preview final review: hitting where it hurts for the better

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 … [...]

Hibernate Search in Action: all chapters written

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 … [...]

Two third of Hibernate Search in Action out!

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 … [...]