Java 8 finally brings support for functional programming to Java. Functional programming support helps streamline existing code while providing powerful new capabilities to the Java language. It will also allow for new, more elegant ways to work with databases in Java. It will bring us one step closer to the …
Fado in an open source tool that compiles SQL queries to type safe JDBC convenience wrappers. SELECT statements are converted to matching PreparedStatement and ResultSet wrappers. Treating SQL as source code enables a more natural workflow. Fado is most appropriate for forms-based CRUD applications.
This Hibernate tutorial episode shows the difference between Entity type objects and Value type objects. You will use the @Embeddable annotations to embed a value type object into our Entity class.
Many developers who are learning the Spring Framework think of it as simply another mechanism for centralized dependency injection. While the framework does handle that responsibility quite well, the framework is so much more. This session explores some of the building blocks and patterns used by the core framework as …
After a couple of years hiatus, Java SE is back on a regular release cadence again with Java SE 7 released in 2011 and SE 8 scheduled for early 2013. This session will go through what is planned for SE 8 and what the thoughts for SE 9 and beyond …
As developers, we sometimes need to improve the performance our Java code. Or worse: the code in third party libraries. This talk gives a little bit of background information on why code can be slow, what free and commercial tools we have at hand to measure it, and how different …
