Everything beta

A short two months back I posted an article describing how to upgrade to Spring 3.0 M2. Spring folks are releasing at breakneck speed and so I got busy again upgrading spincloud.com to Spring 3.0 M3 released at the beginning of May. Just yesterday (June 3rd) the team released Spring Security 3.0 M1 and I decided to roll this in Spincloud as well. Upgrading Spring Security from 2.0.4 to 3.0.0 M1 For Spring Security 3.0.0 M1 I'm … read on »

Level 2 cache is one of the most powerful features of the JPA spec. It's a transparent layer that manages out-of-session data access and cranks-up the performance of the data access tier. To my knowledge it has been first seen in Hibernate and was later adopted by the then-emerging JPA spec (driven mostly by the Hibernate guys back in the day). As annotations gained strength and adoption, L2 caching that was initially configured through XML or … read on »

As I'm using the ubiquitous Hibernate 3.3 as the JPA 1.0 provider for Spincloud, I decided to try out another one. I had tried OpenJPA (spawned from Kodo JDO) when they only supported build-time bytecode enhancement and it was a pain to make it work. It worked all right but boy what a pain. There's now an agent to provide on-the-fly enhancement but I'll take transparent enhancement anytime. I've heard about EclipseLink before. The … read on »

In the spirit of beta I'm upgrading spincloud.com to Spring 3.0. I'm using version 2.5.6 currently but it's missing REST support and I had to use Carbonfive's REST library which worked like a charm. Now it's time to get back under Spring's fold and use their built-in REST support. Spring 3 opens the door to a lot of new features so I'm eager to try it. I'm using Maven2 to get the jars and Ant to … read on »