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As I was just remembered on Twitter, my talk on Hades at Devoxx 2009 is now freely available to watch at Parleys.com. So watch it here or direcly at Parleys.

Let me announce that as of yesterday Hades ships in its first stable version 1.0. As this of course marks an important milestone let me just briefly give an overview of the features Hades provides. I will start with the very basic features in this post and continue to elaborate on advanced ones in furthers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am pleased to announce version 0.3 of Hades, an open source project I lead. The release bundles a new ExtendedGenericDao implementation based on EclipseLink as well as some major package refactorings. For more information and a detailed changelog see the project homepage.

Java EE development has been packed with lots of metadata since day one. Things have changed a lot over times and we have been provided with more elegant solutions. I don’t want to go deeply into the ongoing debate on Annotations versus XML but rather go one step back and discuss metadata on a more [...]

Today we officially released version 0.2 of Hades, a domain class and DAO development library based on JPA and Spring. Hades is mainly based on an idea provided by Eberhard Wolff in Java Magazin. Hades feature list reads as follows:

Implementation of CRUD methods for JPA Entities
Transparent triggering of JPA NamedQueries by finder methods
Dynamic query generation [...]