A few months ago, i’ve read a tutorial about spring 2.5 writen by Endy Muhardin (one of JUG Indonesia Hall Of Fame), that tutorial explained bout newest features of Spring 2.5, this version now supports Annotation. Configuration is no longer always in xml file. this made our effort to build program pragmatically more easier to configure, faster and efficient.
But due to my bustle, and a regulation in place i work now. i have to leave Spring Frameworks. My project prefer choosing EJB3 and Struts2 as main developtment stack. the main reason is our client need a distributable application (even i know that spring support those too). Besides, developt a ORM for handling database using JPA is more interesting for me than other approach. One question is, how bout people who doesnt need EJB feature which needed heavy container like Glassfish or JBOSS to running their application?.
Fortunately, Spring support JPA for connecting to database, we can choose Hibernate or Toplink for JPA implementations. and it’s still can run in light web server like tomcat or jetty. i’ll give you very simple example using JPA+Hibernate in Spring 2.5. Continue reading ‘Simple Maven2, Spring 2.5, JPA and Hibernate integration’
