Now that I am done with my what took a lot of my time recently, I will be on the road for pretty much the whole month of november all over Europe to spread the word.
First and foremost, I will inaugurate the new MarsJUG (in Marseille) on October 15th. I will be talking about Hibernate [...]
Remember my French podcast Les Cast Codeurs? (Doing well, thank you for asking) Well apparently, I did not have enough and started a new one. In English this time.
JBoss Community Asylum. A podcast on, by and about the JBoss Community and its gazilllllllion projects and ideas. It’s available here and the iTunes link is here. [...]
I came across some figures regarding downloads of Glassfish and JBoss AS that really puzzled me. Basically Glassfish was downloaded 700.000 times a month (end of ‘08) while JBoss AS was only downloaded around 115.000 times a month at the same. My first reaction was “Well done to you, Sun!” and then I realized that [...]
I have just started a new podcast with a few French open source activists. All about Java, all in French. If you know French, read on ; otherwise, well… learn
Les Cast Codeurs Podcast est dans les bacs!
Le podcast en français dans le code sur Java par Emmanuel Bernard (JBoss, Hibernate), Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource, [...]
I have recently been interviewed by Kenneth Rimple for the Chariot TechCast.
In this podcast, we speak to JBoss’s Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validation using JSR-303, the Bean Validation framework. JSR-303 aims to provide an annotation-driven mechanism to mark plain old java beans with annotations, such as @NotNull, @Min, @Max, and can support custom [...]
I am usually not the kind of person that likes patting one another on the back. I am always prompt to point out what’s left to be done rather that what has been done. But reading Sacha’s newsletter to our customer made me proud.
JBoss AS 5 has had record downloads. People were eager to get [...]
Next week, I will be at the JBug in Munich presenting Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation. If you are around Monday 2nd, come swing by. The JBug Munich website is here for details.
I will be speaking at DevNexus. This small conference is a spin off the Atlanta Java User Group.
Here are a few things I like about the conference personally:
There is around 10 presentations over two days, so you will be able to see all / most of them.
The price is very reasonable ($150 for early birds), [...]
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
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 (allowing declarative phonetic, [...]