Go us

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 AS 5 out, so were we.

A fully TCK compliant OpenJDK based Java SE 6 made it into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. As far as I know, this is the first fully Open Source Java SE implementation certified against the TCK (might be wrong, so don’t quote me on that).

JSR 299 (ex Web Beans, newly named Java Contexts and Dependency Injection) is now in its latest public draft review. Gavin and the EG have worked *very* hard to address the EE 6 expert group concerns and pave the road to include this technology in Java EE 6.

The JSR-299 reference implementation is in pretty good shape and releases steadily. I am personally impressed by the quality of the reference guide (alpha 2 here).

RESTEasy, the JBoss JAX-RS implementation is now fully certified and has reached 1.0. I know Bill Burke has been waiting to grab and pass the TCK for a long time.

Bean Validation public draft is out. I also worked very hard too, damn it! ;) We had a lot of positive feedbacks from you guys in our forum. If you want to look at the cutting edge, I release spec snapshots quite regularly on the hibernate-dev mailing list. The latest work includes finalized JPA and JSF integration, type-safe constraint validators, XML support and clearer names.

Also the reference implementation is developped in the open. We hope to get a first milestone release this week or the next one: we did add cool new features you requested in the spec recently (like type-safe validators) and we want to have them in the RI.

A little while ago, Navin released JBoss Cache Searchable 1.0 GA which is based on Hibernate Search. Good stuff: a full-text searchable distributed object cache.

A cool project named JBoss Negociation brings desktop Single Sign On to web apps. Basically, by login to your Windows 2000/XP machine that is secured by an Active Directory and then go to any of the kerberos aware web applications that are hosted by your company in the network, you will have seamless SSO. Their latest GA is here.

That’s just my selection of January news. Who said JBoss was sleeping ;) Alright, enough self congratulation and back to work.

February 2nd, 2009 | Category: jboss | Leave a comment

JBUG Munich: Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation

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.

January 26th, 2009 | Category: jboss, jug | One comment

DevNexus: human friendly conference March 10-11 in Atlanta

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), $185 regular price.
  • The size is reasonable, so interacting with speakers is natural.
  • Atlanta in March is very nice.
  • ahem, I will be speaking there, ahem.

I will personally speak about our experience in scaling Hibernate in big environments and how SaaS vendors can face the challenge. I will also discuss Hibernate Shards and Hibernate Search with regard to scalability. And there are nine other speakers at the conference, so check their website.

January 24th, 2009 | Category: conference, java, jboss | One comment

How to install Git and git-svn on Mac OS X

It’s hard to find good Google links for installing git-svn on Mac OS X. Here is my piece.

  • Install port: download it at http://darwinports.com and run the installer
  • run sudo port install subversion-perlbindings (it takes a while as the installer download the internet)
  • run sudo port install git-core +svn (don’t forget +svn or you will have to uninstall git-core and reinstall it)

You are ready to use git svn command. git-svn does not work but git svn does: that’s because git-svn is not in your PATH. If you want to make git-svn work, add /opt/local/libexex/git-core to it (thanks Randall for the tip).

From there, have a look at http://viget.com/extend/effectively-using-git-with-subversion for a quick tutorial.

January 16th, 2009 | Category: git, svn | 3 comments

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 :)

December 10th, 2008 | Category: book, hibernate search, jboss | Leave a comment

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 (allowing declarative phonetic, synonym, n-gram indexing and searches)

  • Devoxx is very close. Come see the JBoss folks and topics and come to the Seam meetup after the BOF of course :)

Also, on the Bean Validation (JSR 303) side, I am finalizing the last changes in the spec for the public draft. We made a lot of progress in the last two weeks on various subjects including type-safe groups and JPA / JSF / EE integration (with the finalized draft, I will officially contact the EE expert group). Stay tuned, hopefully the draft should be out in a week or two.

Finally, Hibernate Search in Action is supposed to be released in final PDF monday (still not believing in it till I see that one ;) ).

Great week on my side. See you at Devoxx for a drink or two.

December 5th, 2008 | Category: book, conference, hibernate search, jboss | 2 comments

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. John and I have given back our last edits for Hibernate Search in Action. So we are still on target for releasing the book in december. I personally still can’t believe I am done, so I will play the St Thomas and will wait till I can touch the paper :)

You can get the paper book at Amazon or on the Manning website. Manning also offers the PDF version.

December 1st, 2008 | Category: book, hibernate search, jboss | 2 comments

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 Ayende personally, but I can only admire someone that blogs more that I can tweet and still have a full time job :)

October 7th, 2008 | Category: book, hibernate search, jboss | Leave a comment

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 two weeks to improve a lot the manuscript:

  • clearer code transcripts with more inline annotations
  • better separation between different parts of the same example (Hibernate API versus Java Persistence API)
  • the code has been updated to the latest Hibernate Search version and cleaned up a lot (no more warning, same comments as in the book)
  • the code now contains README files for easier navigation, ant scripts, Eclipse and IntelliJ descriptors
  • a nice appendix summarizing all annotations, Hibernate Search APIs and Lucene Query classes
  • added an index: I wish I could plug Hibernate Search on the book, that one was painful
  • added a section on testing (mocking, in-memory integration testing, performance testing)
  • better explanation on how query and analyzer are interwoven
  • add the Explanation API description
  • clearer introduction for each chapter
  • much more references than before making book navigation easier
  • all references in the book are up to date. No more Chapter XX ;)
  • improvements on the clustering chapter

The code is almost ready for prime time, we will publish it as soon as we find the right vehicle for it.

Thanks to all our reviewers. While I am not sure I appreciate the recent sleep depravation, this definitely improved the book a lot.

As usual, you can get the preview version electronically at Manning, it has all the chapters and I hope to get the latest changes uploaded soon.

September 11th, 2008 | Category: book, hibernate search, jboss | 2 comments

JarInspector on Mac OS X

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 your jars recursively
  • edit/view files (useful for MANIFEST.MF)
  • decompile a class
  • find a file/class by name

By the way, this utility also opens zip files.

Enjoy.

August 29th, 2008 | Category: Mac OS X, java | 3 comments
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