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It’s been official for a few days now, so I thought I could drop a public note about me joining SpringSource Germany (division of VMware) as Senior Consultant beginning March 1st this year. Time to look back on three exciting years at Synyx and an outlook of what’s about to come.
I joined Synyx almost exactly [...]

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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.

I blogged about Hades, an OpenSource project I lead a while ago. Today I want to launch another neat library. Much smaller than Hades but IMHO useful nevertheless.
Developing Spring applications you often come to the point of having a component that should get a list of collaborateurs injected. The component in turn does select one [...]

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 [...]

Wir führen in der Firma nach und nach Docbook als Dokumentationsstandard ein. Mit docbkx steht auch ein Plugin für unser Buildsystem Maven zur Verfügung. Nachdem ich die letzte Woche das Synyx CI in ein XSLT Stylesheet gegossen hatte, versuchte ich aus dem Proof of Concept Maven Projekt einen Archetype zu machen.