Are you aware that I know a lot about you? You don’t believe me? Here you go: You are smart! You are constantly trying to improve your skills! You are probably better at what you do for a living than most of your colleagues! Wow, how did I do that? Simple: You are reading my [...]
In a late blog post Stephan Schmidt vents his problems with hibernate and declares “ORMs are a thing of the past” I agree to some extend: – The SQL generated by Hibernate by default is horrible. Huge joins, with hundreds of columns, many unneeded. – Annotations feel like dirt in your code, and maintaining XML [...]
Some days ago I was asked to set up a tomcat server for SSL. You’d think this is a no brainer. And it actually is when you proceed along the paved path. But if you deviate only a little, you are in big trouble. I solved the trouble I got in, and here is my [...]