Category Archives: Frameworks

Using Spring and Hibernate With JPA And Entity Interfaces

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Brandon Harper

I’m currently setting up a new Hibernate project and finally getting around to trying out JPA annotations instead of using any Hibernate configuration or mapping files– what the hell took me so long!!??! Anyhow, among the many gotchas I came … Continue reading →

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Getting Behind Python: Sun Hires Python & Jython Developers

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Brandon Harper

As both a fan and user of the great technologies Python, and the Sun JVM (primarily via Java), I was very happy to come across this eWeek article which says that Sun announced the hiring of two key Python engineers. … Continue reading →

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Maven: Including Axis2 Artifacts into EAR’s

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Brandon Harper

I’m going to skip over a rant about how much Axis2 sucks in order to pass a tip on how to include Axis2 artifacts (AAR’s, MAR’s, etc) into an EAR file using the Maven plugin to package EAR files, maven-ear-plugin. … Continue reading →

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Google Releases Guice: A Java Dependency Injection Framework

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Brandon Harper

Google recently released yet another interesting piece of Java machinery, Guice. Given the direction that Spring 2.0 is going in, this looks like a good alternative if you’re looking for a simple dependency injection framework. If you’re curious about what … Continue reading →

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Technology Predictions for 2007

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Brandon Harper

A couple of weeks ago Sys-Con published various industry opinions of what we’d see in 2007 in many of it’s magazines. The article showed-up on Slashdot (with a misleading title) among other places and included various industry luminaries. A couple … Continue reading →

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Django Is Gaining Legs

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Brandon Harper

While I keep poking around Django, I have yet to do much other than from simple stuff with it. That said, it’s definitely starting to gain some ground, particularly in the media space. Locally in Colorado, both the Boulder Daily … Continue reading →

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Django Featured on IBM developerWorks

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Brandon Harper

I’ve been playing around with Django quite a bit at home over the past couple of weeks and saw that IBM developerWorks just published the first in a series of articles about Python web frameworks titled “Develop for the Web … Continue reading →

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Initial Impressions of Fusebox 4

Posted on July 14, 2003 by Brandon Harper

Today was the day I finally sat down and started doing more than just poking around at the Fusebox 4 core files and demo applications– I actually decided to use it.

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