A short two months back I posted an article describing how to upgrade to Spring 3.0 M2. Spring folks are releasing at breakneck speed and so I got busy again upgrading spincloud.com to Spring 3.0 M3 released at the beginning of May. Just yesterday (June 3rd) the team released Spring Security 3.0 M1 and I… Continue reading Upgrading to Spring 3.0.0.M3 and Spring Security 3.0.0.M1
Tag: JEE
Proposal to standardize the Level 2 query cache configuration in JPA 2.0
Level 2 cache is one of the most powerful features of the JPA spec. It’s a transparent layer that manages out-of-session data access and cranks-up the performance of the data access tier. To my knowledge it has been first seen in Hibernate and was later adopted by the then-emerging JPA spec (driven mostly by the… Continue reading Proposal to standardize the Level 2 query cache configuration in JPA 2.0
Evaluating EclipseLink 1.1
As I’m using the ubiquitous Hibernate 3.3 as the JPA 1.0 provider for Spincloud, I decided to try out another one. I had tried OpenJPA (spawned from Kodo JDO) when they only supported build-time bytecode enhancement and it was a pain to make it work. It worked all right but boy what a pain. There’s… Continue reading Evaluating EclipseLink 1.1
Upgrading to Spring 3.0
In the spirit of beta I’m upgrading spincloud.com to Spring 3.0. I’m using version 2.5.6 currently but it’s missing REST support and I had to use Carbonfive’s REST library which worked like a charm. Now it’s time to get back under Spring’s fold and use their built-in REST support. Spring 3 opens the door to… Continue reading Upgrading to Spring 3.0