Posted February 28th, 2009 by Paul Codding
The Idea After a great suggestion from a colleague I was inspired to create what I think is an under-used utility. That utility is an Instant Messaging Bot. I know they seem dated, and harken back to the days of AIM bots, but in this world of rapid publishing and communications I think they’re an [...]
Posted January 21st, 2008 by Paul Codding
If you’re like me and have written Spring web applications using Hibernate for persistence, you’ve probably seen this error when using FetchType.LAZY in your @OneToMany annotation: “failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: your.Class.assocation no session or session was closed.” If you are using lazy loading rather than eager loading for obvious reasons, and [...]
Tags: Hibernate, Spring
Posted January 11th, 2008 by Paul Codding
This week at work I’ve had the luxury of getting to sit down and write a sample application using a few of my favorite tools: Spring, and Hibernate-Annotations. New to this equation has been Sitemesh. I’ve been using Tiles for quite a while and have felt very comfortable with it, but at the same time [...]
Tags: Hibernate, Sitemesh, Spring
Posted March 31st, 2007 by Paul Codding
As part of a project I’m currently working on, I’ve had to integrate a RoR application with another developer’s Java code. At first glance, things looked to be fairly simple as I envisioned a simple Web Service communication between Java and Ruby would be a breeze…not so fast. Getting the two to play nice with [...]