Unfortunately, Sun does talk about annotations quite a lot, and they don’t appear to have noticed that this particular new language feature is actually a bit ill-conceived. The EJB 3 spec makes heavy ...

When writing a complex Java program filled with many interlocking objects, any automation of routine tasks can be a big help. So Java developers using the Java Spring framework should welcome recent ...

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...