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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 [...]

Just in case you haven’t noticed already. Last Friday we played an unplugged gig with Four Sided Cube at Das Haus in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Thanks to Paul Kuhnt, we could get an exceptionally awesome live recording of that concert. My wife took some rudimentary video shots with our underwhelming photo camera. After some hours of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a silent release, nevertheless I want to post a tiny shout about it. Hera is a small plugin library that allows you to create pluggable architectures based on Spring using build time configuration. You might want to find out details by skimming my introducing blog post about it.
0.4 is not a very feature [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]