My Exit Strategy

The last months have been extremely busy. Three different projects causing lots of work and sometimes worries, three different conferences I attended as a speaker and various talks at the local JUG. This made it hard to actually think about what I want to do next year. Now all the busy stuff is over (although [...]

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Hibernate has Problems, but where is the Alternative?

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 [...]

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