There are no software SOLUTIONS, the software SOLUTIONS do not exist

I have been working on software development during the last 16 years, i have used many languages and technologies along this time. Then I have learned one thing:

There are no Software solutions, there are only partial implementations of fuzzy human ideas.

Is Hibernate 3.2.6.GA a production ready release? I don’t think so.

It is amazing! Hibernate 3.2.6.GA does not support joined inheritance strategy!
There is a Bug (HHH-1657) reported since Apr/10/2006 and it is not fixed yet!

Hey Hibernate guys, how can you call this a production release when it is no at least a working JPA feature complaint release?

iBatis-Ext: iBatis with annotations, typed collections and interface based DAOs

I developed a very simple and small library to add some typed access to the SqlClientMap methods of the iBatis framework.

The idea is very simply:

0. Write your model POJO
See the code here

1. Write an interface and annotate it with @DAO
2. Add methods to the interface and annotate they with @SelectStatement, @UpdateStatement, ….
See the code here

3. Write the sqlmap.xml in the same package of the interface and with the same name but with extension .ibatis.xml
See the code here

4. Write your sqlMap config file and place it in the classpath.
See the code here

5. Obtain an IBatisExtSessionFactory using the static build(sqlConfig) method.
6. Create a threadsafe session using the createSession method.
7. Obtain a dao instance using the getDAO(…) method.
8. Call your dao methods.
See the code here

Download the library:

• Complete source code and Netbeans 6.0 project
• Just the jar file
• Javadoc
• Complete CRUD Sample (MySQL)

I am using this code in a project right now and works like a charm. I posted it here because maybe it can be useful for you too. Any feedback is appreciated.

Introducing Apache Wicket

There is a very nice Wicket introduction at TheServerSide.com:

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=IntroducingApacheWicket