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Hit the road Jack

2009-10-13T14:49:00.002-05:00

Now that I am done with my what took a lot of my time recently, I will be on the road for pretty much the whole month of november all over Europe to spread the word.First and foremost, I will inaugurate the new MarsJUG (in Marseille) on October 15th. I will be talking about Hibernate Search and how to implement clever full-text search engines using approximations (phonetic approximation etc).I

JBoss Community Asylum - a new podcast with bits of me in it

2009-09-24T08:36:00.002-05:00

Remember my French podcast Les Cast Codeurs? (Doing well, thank you for asking) Well apparently, I did not have enough and started a new one. In English this time.JBoss Community Asylum. A podcast on, by and about the JBoss Community and its gazilllllllion projects and ideas. It's available here and the iTunes link is here. Basically, instead of blaming people about the lack of podcasts on the

Book review: Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna

2009-08-10T07:59:00.002-05:00

Over the last few days, I have been reading Dependency Injection by Dhanji Prasanna published by Manning. I must admit, this is a much easier task than writing Hibernate Search in Action ;)Summary first: very easy to read, a gold mine of knowledge and tips on a subject that is essential to the life of today's Java developers. Go buy it and keep it around your desk.Let's quickly talk about the

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: EE edition

2009-07-07T06:47:00.002-05:00

I came across some figures regarding downloads of Glassfish and JBoss AS that really puzzled me. Basically Glassfish was downloaded 700.000 times a month (end of '08) while JBoss AS was only downloaded around 115.000 times a month at the same. My first reaction was "Well done to you, Sun!" and then I realized that the gap was too good to be true. Let's have a look at these numbers.For JBoss AS,

Having problems with Adium and Yahoo IM?

2009-06-22T03:07:00.003-05:00

Yahoo has changed its login protocol, breaking a number of third party IM clients including Adium.The Adium team has released 1.3.5.rc1 which solves the issue. Check it out. If you use Adium 1.4 beta, upgrade to beta7.Hope this will save you some time.

Java generics end of mystery

2009-04-30T03:08:00.002-05:00

Remember my puzzlement in front of http://blog.emmanuelbernard.com/2009/04/java-generics-mystery.html? I usually try to make sense of the unknown type by looking at what should be allowed when two incompatible types are used as the unknown type, and then using the generic type using the unknown type as a reference to a known type to see what incorrect things can be done through the reference. If

Java generics mystery

2009-04-29T06:42:00.003-05:00

Here is a puzzle for Generics gurus.Can somebody explain why Set

addresses = new HashSet

();Set things = addresses;compiles but Set> validatedAddresses = new HashSet>();Set> validatedThings = validatedAddresses;does not compile?More specifically, the assignment on the second line breaks.

Oracle is buying Sun: best quotes of the day

2009-04-20T09:26:00.002-05:00

Alex Miller: "Next version of Java will be Java SE 7.0.0.0.17832"Emmanuel Bernard: "The day an Oracle swallows the Sun and in front the Business Machine. No kidding it's a Titans fight."Max Andersen: Thinking when Orsun will introduce a String in Java that says null == ""Alexis MP: "Checking my blog posts tagged with "oracle". No need to MarcF' them ;)"Bruno Georges: "yes, this came out of the

Les Cast Codeurs Podcast is born

2009-04-14T01:42:00.001-05:00

I have just started a new podcast with a few French open source activists. All about Java, all in French. If you know French, read on ; otherwise, well... learn :)Les Cast Codeurs Podcast est dans les bacs!Le podcast en français dans le code sur Java par Emmanuel Bernard (JBoss, Hibernate), Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource, Groovy), Antonio Goncalves (freelance, auteur), Vincent Massol (XWiki,

Podcast on Bean Validation lastest PFD

2009-04-03T08:43:00.004-05:00

I have recently been interviewed by Kenneth Rimple for the Chariot TechCast. In this podcast, we speak to JBoss's Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validation using JSR-303, the Bean Validation framework. JSR-303 aims to provide an annotation-driven mechanism to mark plain old java beans with annotations, such as @NotNull, @Min, @Max, and can support custom validation annotations as well. JSR-

Go us

2009-02-02T01:27:00.002-05:00

I am usually not the kind of person that likes patting one another on the back. I am always prompt to point out what's left to be done rather that what has been done. But reading Sacha's newsletter to our customer made me proud.JBoss AS 5 has had record downloads. People were eager to get AS 5 out, so were we.A fully TCK compliant OpenJDK based Java SE 6 made it into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.

JBUG Munich: Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation

2009-01-26T14:00:00.002-05:00

Next week, I will be at the JBug in Munich presenting Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation. If you are around Monday 2nd, come swing by. The JBug Munich website is here for details.

DevNexus: human friendly conference March 10-11 in Atlanta

2009-01-24T10:01:00.002-05:00

I will be speaking at DevNexus. This small conference is a spin off the Atlanta Java User Group.Here are a few things I like about the conference personally: There is around 10 presentations over two days, so you will be able to see all / most of them. The price is very reasonable ($150 for early birds), $185 regular price. The size is reasonable, so interacting with speakers is natural.

How to install Git and git-svn on Mac OS X

2009-01-15T19:24:00.004-05:00

It's hard to find good Google links for installing git-svn on Mac OS X. Here is my piece. Install port: download it at http://darwinports.com and run the installer run sudo port install subversion-perlbindings (it takes a while as the installer download the internet) run sudo port install git-core +svn (don't forget +svn or you will have to uninstall git-core and reinstall it)You are ready to

Answering questions at JavaRanch + free books

2008-12-10T08:28:00.002-05:00

I am doing a session on Hibernate Search all this week at JavaRanch. Manning will give away free books of Hibernate Search in Action for the occasion.If you have questions on Hibernate Search, express yourself :)

JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and

2008-12-05T08:14:00.001-05:00

Great news this week: JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it. Hibernate Search 3.1 is out. A lot of good stuffs like performance improvements at indexing and querying time and some cool new features like the analyzer declaration framework (allowing declarative phonetic, synonym, n-gram indexing and searches) Devoxx is very

Hibernate Search 3.1 RefCard

2008-12-01T16:17:00.002-05:00

DZone has a nice Hibernate Search 3.1 6-pages ref card. It is packed with:The list of annotations and their descriptions Hibernate Search's main APIs Lucene's most useful query types Quick examples involving mappings and API usage (including the new analyzer declaration framework)It's free but you need to register.Speaking of the devil. John and I have given back our last edits for Hibernate

Book review and NHibernate Search

2008-10-07T13:24:00.002-05:00

Ayende, one of the active bees behind the NHibernate portfolio, has a nice review of Hibernate Search in Action on his blog.By the way, Ayende has ported Hibernate Search to .net : NHibernate.Search. I don't think there is documentation specific to the project but the Hibernate Search documentation is just as useful.I don't know Ayende personally, but I can only admire someone that blogs more

Hibernate Search book preview final review: hitting where it hurts for the better

2008-09-11T10:13:00.004-05:00

We just had our third review of Hibernate Search in Action. Receiving this feedback has been a humble experience. Lot's of good reviews (good) and some critical ones (even better). Every imperfection we left aside came back in the spot lights of our reviewers.Based on this feedback, we have been working hard the last two weeks to improve a lot the manuscript: clearer code transcripts with more

JarInspector on Mac OS X

2008-08-29T07:47:00.002-05:00

There is a tiny little utility that let's you inspect JAR/WAR/EAR files on the Mac OS platform. The software is available here. Install it. To open a JAR, simply right click and chose JarInspector as the application. I personally did not set JarInspector as my default .jar application to let the default JAR launcher kicks in but I have been very close to.Amongst the useful features: navigate in

Top 5 reasons why Out Of Office messages are wrong

2008-08-21T08:41:00.003-05:00

I have always been annoyed quite a bit by automatic Out of Office messages. This summer was no exception. So here are my top reasons for not doing it. Nobody cares about your trip is Egypt really! If I am sending you an email, I am not on vacations. Do you really want to piss me off? Email is an asynchronous media. Nobody should expect a synchronous response. If you don't answer a message, a)

Hibernate Search in Action: all chapters written

2008-08-11T09:16:00.002-05:00

That's now official, I handed over the last chapter to the publisher yesterday. All chapters will be available to the early access program in the next few days. The journey is not finished yet. A lot of reviewing and correction are at sight. If you have feedback, now is the time :)The last last few chapters out cover: Hibernate Search filters Performance Cluster and scalabilityFilters are a

Remotely send and consume messages with JMS in JBoss AS 5.0

2008-08-05T19:11:00.004-05:00

This tutorial will show you how to create a queue in JBoss AS 5 (which uses JBoss Messaging 1.4.1), send a message to a remote queue and listen to the queue using a Message Driven Bean.I have been playing with JMS queues and MDBs in JBoss AS 5 today to complete the clustering chapter of Hibernate Search in Action and went through more bumps than I should have. Let me share what I've learnt.

Breaking news: Apple Inc acquires Twitter...

2008-07-11T09:25:00.002-05:00

... and uses it as their iTunes Store infrastructure. Now it's broke!I updated my iPhone firmware this morning *as requested by Apple* and the process is hung because the iTunes Store is down. I now have a totally bricked legit iPhone: no call, no text. Great!Apple, I am very angry at you. Why are you penalizing your legit customers by not allowing the phone to be activated without your blessing.

Two third of Hibernate Search in Action out!

2008-05-29T09:15:00.002-05:00

We have just pushed another set of chapters for Hibernate Search in Action and reached the symbolic limit of 2/3. Yoohoo! We have also enhanced some of the existing chapters based on the feedbacks we received and the perseverance of our editor. They have just shipped as part of the early access program available in ebook format. I am very happy with the new chapters especially the description of