Oracle is buying Sun: best quotes of the day

Alex Miller: "Next version of Java will be Java SE 7.0.0.0.17832"

Emmanuel Bernard: "The day an Oracle swallows the Sun and in front the Business Machine. No kidding it's a Titans fight."

Max Andersen: Thinking when Orsun will introduce a String in Java that says null == ""

Alexis MP: "Checking my blog posts tagged with "oracle". No need to MarcF' them ;)"

Bruno Georges: "yes, this came out of the Blue :-)"

Stomp Rasta: "There'll have Java SE 7 Lite (300 MB) and Java SE 7 Full (600 MB). And we'll have to pay for each VM installed."

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Les Cast Codeurs Podcast is born

I have just started a new podcast with a few French open source activists. All about Java, all in French. If you know French, read on ; otherwise, well... learn :)

Les Cast Codeurs Podcast est dans les bacs!

Le podcast en français dans le code sur Java par Emmanuel Bernard (JBoss, Hibernate), Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource, Groovy), Antonio Goncalves (freelance, auteur), Vincent Massol (XWiki, Maven).

Restez informés sur les sujets brûlants de l'industrie Java. Plongez sur un sujet précis avec l'interview de l'épisode. Supportez les radotages de vos hôtes.

Ecoutez-nous et faites passer le message autour de vous !

web: http://lescastcodeurs.com
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=312239675
podcast syndication: http://lescastcodeurs.com/podcast-rss
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feedback: commentaire@lescastcodeurs.com

Podcast on Bean Validation lastest PFD

I have recently been interviewed by Kenneth Rimple for the Chariot TechCast.

In this podcast, we speak to JBoss's Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validation using JSR-303, the Bean Validation framework. JSR-303 aims to provide an annotation-driven mechanism to mark plain old java beans with annotations, such as @NotNull, @Min, @Max, and can support custom validation annotations as well.

JSR-303 is part of the Java EE 6 suite of JSRs and will be used automatically out of the box by frameworks such as JSF 2.0. Emmanuel also goes into some detail about the current state of Hibernate Search.

You can listen to it here or register to iTunes.

Go us

I am usually not the kind of person that likes patting one another on the back. I am always prompt to point out what's left to be done rather that what has been done. But reading Sacha's newsletter to our customer made me proud.

JBoss AS 5 has had record downloads. People were eager to get AS 5 out, so were we.

A fully TCK compliant OpenJDK based Java SE 6 made it into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. As far as I know, this is the first fully Open Source Java SE implementation certified against the TCK (might be wrong, so don't quote me on that).

JSR 299 (ex Web Beans, newly named Java Contexts and Dependency Injection) is now in its latest public draft review. Gavin and the EG have worked *very* hard to address the EE 6 expert group concerns and pave the road to include this technology in Java EE 6.

The JSR-299 reference implementation is in pretty good shape and releases steadily. I am personally impressed by the quality of the reference guide (alpha 2 here).

RESTEasy, the JBoss JAX-RS implementation is now fully certified and has reached 1.0. I know Bill Burke has been waiting to grab and pass the TCK for a long time.

Bean Validation public draft is out. I also worked very hard too, damn it! ;) We had a lot of positive feedbacks from you guys in our forum. If you want to look at the cutting edge, I release spec snapshots quite regularly on the hibernate-dev mailing list. The latest work includes finalized JPA and JSF integration, type-safe constraint validators, XML support and clearer names.

Also the reference implementation is developped in the open. We hope to get a first milestone release this week or the next one: we did add cool new features you requested in the spec recently (like type-safe validators) and we want to have them in the RI.

A little while ago, Navin released JBoss Cache Searchable 1.0 GA which is based on Hibernate Search. Good stuff: a full-text searchable distributed object cache.

A cool project named JBoss Negociation brings desktop Single Sign On to web apps. Basically, by login to your Windows 2000/XP machine that is secured by an Active Directory and then go to any of the kerberos aware web applications that are hosted by your company in the network, you will have seamless SSO. Their latest GA is here.

That's just my selection of January news. Who said JBoss was sleeping ;) Alright, enough self congratulation and back to work.

JBUG Munich: Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation

Next week, I will be at the JBug in Munich presenting Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation. If you are around Monday 2nd, come swing by. The JBug Munich website is here for details.

DevNexus: human friendly conference March 10-11 in Atlanta

I will be speaking at DevNexus. This small conference is a spin off the Atlanta Java User Group.

Here are a few things I like about the conference personally:

• There is around 10 presentations over two days, so you will be able to see all / most of them.
• The price is very reasonable ($150 for early birds), $185 regular price.
• The size is reasonable, so interacting with speakers is natural.
• Atlanta in March is very nice.
• ahem, I will be speaking there, ahem.

I will personally speak about our experience in scaling Hibernate in big environments and how SaaS vendors can face the challenge. I will also discuss Hibernate Shards and Hibernate Search with regard to scalability. And there are nine other speakers at the conference, so check their website.

How to install Git and git-svn on Mac OS X

It's hard to find good Google links for installing git-svn on Mac OS X. Here is my piece.

• Install port: download it at http://darwinports.com and run the installer
• run sudo port install subversion-perlbindings (it takes a while as the installer download the internet)
• run sudo port install git-core +svn (don't forget +svn or you will have to uninstall git-core and reinstall it)

You are ready to use git svn command. git-svn does not work but git svn does: that's because git-svn is not in your PATH. If you want to make git-svn work, add /opt/local/libexex/git-core to it (thanks Randall for the tip).

From there, have a look at http://viget.com/extend/effectively-using-git-with-subversion for a quick tutorial.