Archive for August, 2010

Oracle Sues Google over Android

News has emerged of legal action being taken by Oracle (which recently acquired Sun Microsystems, the company behind Java) against Google over alleged infringements of patents in the Android operating system which currently enjoys great popularity in the mobile phone market. As I’ve been giving software patents a bit of thought recently, I find this [...]

Posted on August 13, 2010 at 11:58 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · One Comment
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Hibernate 3 Tip – Log PreparedStatement bindings

I was trying to see what values were being bound to placeholders in the JDBC PreparedStatements generated by Hibernate DAO test classes I’ve created as they go about their persistent business. Dead easy, right? Hibernate supports a configuration parameter ‘show_sql’. Set that to true and see what’s going on under the covers. Well… not so [...]

Posted on August 4, 2010 at 7:23 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Quick Review of ‘Spring in Action’

My better half bought me a copy of Spring in Action (2nd Edition) by Craig Walls last year. I think it’s been a great help for me as I’ve been getting started with Spring. I’d say the first four chapters are worth reading in sequence to get a feel for what Spring does and how [...]

Posted on August 1, 2010 at 10:24 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · One Comment
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