Java Dependency Management with Apache Ivy

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:10:00 +0000

Java Dependency Management with Apache Ivy

Not wanting to ditch your already built well working ant scripts for the plugin-centric view of Maven, especially if your project structure doesn’t line up quite right with Maven’s point of view? Enter Apache Ivy which like Maven can automatically download and resolve all of your dependencies and their dependencies for you with just a few simple lines of XML (if only I could get rid of the XML Part).

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Hibernate Connection Pooling: why isn’t the default one for production?

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:50:00 +0000

Hibernate Connection Pooling: why isn’t the default one for production?

Hibernate unlike NHibernate comes with a variety of connection pooling options. The three primary ones of which I’m aware are [Proxool](http://proxool.sourceforge.net/), [Apache DBCP](http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/), and [c3p0](http://sourceforge.net/projects/c3p0/) . I myself have only so far used c3p0 and it works quite well having saved me from a couple of jams so far where the default one was in use previously. First why not use the default one? Because the official Hibernate documentation says in a big yellow box marked caution the following words:

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Java Dependency Management with Apache Ivy

Java Dependency Management with Apache Ivy

Hibernate Connection Pooling: why isn’t the default one for production?

Hibernate Connection Pooling: why isn’t the default one for production?