Article “Using Oracle TopLink with the Spring Framework” published on OTN

Posted by Lonneke Dikmans at around evening time: September 26, 2006

Today the Oracle Technology Network published my article Using Oracle TopLink with the Spring Framework. In this article I explain step by step how to build a sample application using Spring 1.2.8 and Oracle TopLink with Oracle JDeveloper 10g.

JDeveloper has built in support for TopLink, but you can build the sample application with Eclipse as well. Download the sources and follow the steps in the article. Instead of editing the TopLink sessions in JDeveloper, edit the xml files in the Eclipse editor or the TopLink workbench.

* Filed under: Java, Oracle, Spring
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Testing from the trenches

Posted by Maarten Winkels in the early morning: September 21, 2006

Unit testing is one of the cornerstones of modern software development. Working on several projects with Spring and Hibernate I have come to the conclusion that (in that setting?) there are actually three types of unit testing:

  1. Basic Unit testing
  2. Dao Layer Unit testing
  3. Component Integration testing

As the name of the last type suggests, the categories are actually on a scale towards integration testing. This leads to the conclusion that the boundaries between unit and integration testing are not very sharp. This is interesting, since in our build systems (maven) and best practices, the two are distinct steps.

In this blog I'll discuss the differences between the three types and describe some guidelines for creating tests.

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* Filed under: Hibernate, Java, Spring, Testing
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Interview with Kirk Pepperdine of javaperformancetuning.com

Posted by Jeroen Borgers in the late afternoon: September 6, 2006

On October 31 Kirk Pepperdine - authority in the field of java performance tuning - will join us to hold a 4 days during workshop. Five Xebia internal attendants registered and the remaining seven seats are open for external attendants. For course details go here.

I interviewed Kirk Pepperdine. He is CTO of javaperformancetuning.com and editor of TheServerSide. Kirk talks about the course he provides with us, his work as a consultant and how he tackles performance problems on-site. So if you think about following the course or if you just look for Java performance tips and experiences, this interview is for you.

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