This talk covers the core of the Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping framework by example; that is: in a hands-on manner.

What does this mean? Two things: 1. Rather than spending 1.5 hours going from slide to slide, passively covering various aspects of the Hibernate framework, you'll be actively building a sample application, modeling, persisting, querying information using Hibernate 3.1 2. Hibernate today is a mature and rich framework consisting of many features. Discussion of features outside of the Hibernate "Core" will be sacrificed for the sake of presenting Hibernate in an active, "by example" style.

No a-priori knowledge of Hibernate is assumed. We'll cover the basics of Hibernate v3.1, XML mappings, the Hibernate Query Language (HQL), the Criteria API, custom UserType's, Components, and more! (This talk does not discuss auxiliary topics such as the EJB 3 persistence API, Annotations, or integrating Hibernate in managed (J2EE) environments).

An exercise in refactoring, playing with Java 5 annotations, varargs, JUnit, and more (see detail description for more).

This talk is a little story. It begins, innocently enough, with a speaker's dilemma: how to give an effective talk on Hibernate? The speaker quickly realizes that to he's going to have to automate some of the associated configuration and setup code. There's an interesting refactoring hurdle along the way, whereby the author:

[a] dreams he could be writing the code in JavaScript [b] tries out the Spring Framework's medicine for Hibernate [c] ends up simply using JUnit [d] gets inspired and writes his own mechanism to resolve the situation [e] finally, looks towards the future with a sigh, and thinks "AOP"

An exercise in refactoring, playing with Java 5 annotations, varargs, JUnit, and more.

The jMatter framework is a modern implementation of the Naked Objects Architectural Pattern using Swing, Hibernate, and deployed with Java WebStart. This open-source framework produces 2-tier workgroup apps (Swing front-ends that talk to rdbms back-ends) intended to be used in a LAN or VPN environment.

Developers using a Naked Objects style framework focus on building a behaviourally complete domain model and leave everything else (UI, persistence, etc) to the framework. By focusing on the domain model only, jMatter claims to offer 10x productivity for building Swing workgroup apps.

Come discover jMatter in a hands-on presentation where we'll be developing a live application and hold discussions about this new empowering style of producing business applications.

-- This presentation focuses on learning how to develop workgroup applications using the jMatter framework (open-source).

jMatter embraces the philosophy behind NakedObjects (see nakedobjects.org) which the author believes to be a paradigm shift in the way developers construct business applications.

We will explore this framework in a hands-on manner, by building a live application. This presentation is given by Eitan Suez, the author of the jMatter framework.

JiBX is an open source XML data binding API for Java. JiBX is younger than most other APIs in this space (Castor XML, BEA XMLBeans, JAXB). JiBX's philosophy on data binding is that: [a] databinding should be fast, and [b] databinding frameworks should allow for the divergence and evolution of your codebase from its xml representation. JiBX excels on both counts and consequently is a practical tool for the purpose of data binding. In this session, Eitan will be covering all aspects of Dennis Sosnoski's JiBX framework.

Session Goals: To learn the JiBX API in detail. JiBX can considerably simplify the task of parsing XML content into business objects and generating XML representations of these business objects.

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of XML, but not of any of the variety of standards that build upon that foundation. Basic understanding of the Java programming language.

Session Rating: Intermediate

Category: XML/Web Services