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After I got started holding presentations at conferences at Devoxx last year, this autumn will get really packed with presentation dates. I will kick of the season at GearConf in Düsseldorf. On Thursday Oct. 1st I will speak about increasing developer productivity with Mylyn. During development of Hades Mylyn became an indispensable tool to get [...]

I just want to announce that I am going to speak about Hades at Devoxx and The Server Side Java Symposium this year. The TSSJS takes place in Prague (Czech Republic) from Oct. 27th to 28th whereas Devoxx will be held between Nov. 16th and  20th in Antwerp (Beligum). I am thrilled by the list [...]

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 [...]