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The June issue of the German JavaMagzin features an article about Hades written by myself. I sketch out issues implementing persistence layers briefly and introduce solutions to these issues using Hades. Furthermore fellow developer Alexander Hanschke introduced Java User Group Mannheim in yet another article, too. Check out the current issue and get your copy.
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Today I devoted my day to a general check in how far Hades can be run with the latest Spring 3 milestone. After managing the typical Maven foo I had a project profile up and running that builds Hades against Spring 3 M3 and executes the tests against it. In case you try to migrate [...]

Let me prodly announce version 0.5.0 of Hades. As our project home gives you the quick overview and access to the latest binaries, sources and documentation I want to use this post to elaborate a little bit on the changes in 0.5.0 as well as the future roadmap.
Streamlining of the Spring namespace
Version 0.5.0 one more [...]

Passionatedly practicing conference driven development I’d like to announce version 0.4 of the DAO implementation library Hades.
Eclipse plugin
Using Hades namespace configuration in Spring applications can now be simplyfied by installing the Hades Eclipse Plugin from our update site. The plugin will extend Spring IDE to know the Hades namespace, parse the DAO beans correctly and [...]

Today I’ve got an email by Thomas Braun who considered to play around with Hades. He is facing an application with an existing data access layer based on Spring’s HibernateDaoSupport class. This raised the question of how to integrate Hades into the app without changing existing code.
Thomas was using AnnotationSessionFactoryBean to create the SessionFactory from [...]

Episode 121 of Software Engineering Radio deals with the topic of OR Mappers. Michael Plöd introduces the concept of object-relational mapping technologies, discusses advantages and disadvantages. The content of the episode is very basic to a large extend, which makes it ideal to get an introducing idea of the topic.
The reason I discuss this here [...]

Yesterday I gave a presentation about Hades at the Java User Group Karlsruhe. It was preceeded by an introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming by David Linsin and Florian Waibel of Netpioneer that showed the usage of AOP to define system architecture constraints.
You can download the slides as well as the sample code here or all [...]

I’m taking a break currently, skipping one of the talks here. Devoxx is actually the most exciting conference I ever attended and I want to take the chance to recap some of the impressions I got here. After 4 days of non-daylight, lots of coffee and coke, I really have to say that I liked [...]