Scott Leberknight Speaking at NFJS

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Introduction to Hibernate »more

This session introduces the Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework, showing the basics of persisting Java objects to relational databases. No prior knowledge of Hibernate or ORM is assumed.

Groovier Spring (More Flexible Applications With Spring and Groovy) »more
Spring provides a solid foundation for web and enterprise applications. Its support for dynamic languages like Groovy adds interesting capabilities that can make your application architecture more flexible and dynamic.

Google Your Domain Objects With Hibernate Search »more
Hibernate is one of the pre-eminent object/relational mapping technologies, but the Hibernate Search project adds full-text search capabilities to an already extremely capable tool to allow you to Google your domain objects.

Real World Hibernate Tips »more
Hibernate is a very powerful object/relational mapping framework. With the vast amount of power also comes the responsibility to choose which features of Hibernate to use and how to use them, as well as things to avoid. We'll look at some real world Hibernate tips and tricks in this session.

Polyglot Persistence »more
Polyglot persistence is all about considering your persistence requirements and selecting a persistence mechanism that best mets those requirements, as opposed to selecting an RDBMS as the default choice. In this session we'll look at some of the persistence alternative that are available like Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB, Google Bigtable, and more.

Horizontal Database Partitioning with Hibernate Shards »more
You've probably heard of huge sites like eBay and Google using something called horizontal partitioning, in which they scale relational databases not by using large machines with more and more memory, but by splitting (sharding) the database across many different machines. This session introduces Hibernate Shards, which allows you to use Hibernate across more than one database.

Spring 3.0 Overview »more
The Spring framework has simplified Java enterprise and web development since 2003, and has been a major innovator in improving and simplifying Java server-side programming since its inception. This session will look at the new features in Spring 3.0 as well as what's being removed from the Spring core.

Real World Hibernate Tips (Reloaded) »more
Hibernate is a very powerful object/relational mapping framework. This session contains a new set of Hibernate tips, tricks, and pitfalls.