Mercurial

Managing my projects’ source code I am using Git also as Mercurial. Therefore I often encounter the situation where I am creating a special branch to implement a specific user story or feature request. Now when working on such a story branch I often enter the issue-key or a short title as a prefix for each commit message. Doing this by manually is a waste of time and error-prone and luckily for us, each of both DVCS offers us an easy API to add custom hooks to the different life-cycle events. ...

Today we’re going to take a look at the world of object-relational Mapping and how it is done using the Java Persistence API by creating some basic examples, mapping some relations and querying objects using JPQL or the Criteria API.. Prerequisites Java 6 JDK Maven >= 2 If you’d like to take a look behind the scenes e.g. how entities are mapped in your database you could install a RDBMS of your choice .. or just use Derby/JavaDB that is bundled with the JDK 6 ...