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Consuming OData via JSP in Windows Azure

A colleague recently asked me if I knew anything about consuming OData from a Java deployment in Windows Azure. My answer at the time was “no”, but with a quick pointer to http://code.google.com/p/odata4j/ I know the answer would soon change to “yes”.

0 replies - 4646 views - 05/25/11 by Brian Swan in News

Java Access to SQL Azure via the JDBC Driver for SQL Server

I’ve written a couple of posts (here and here) about Java and the JDBC Driver for SQL Server with the promise of eventually writing about how to get a Java application running on the Windows Azure platform. In this post, I’ll deliver on that promise.

0 replies - 3783 views - 03/30/11 by Brian Swan in News

db4o 8 Looks Great

The decade-old, open source 'database for objects' has managed to stay speedy and relevant in its old age.  As it reaches version 8.0 with a developer release this week, db4o is getting significant performance upgrades - in fact, they're the theme of this...

3 replies - 8268 views - 05/13/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Using a Hibernate Interceptor To Set Audit Trail Properties

In almost every application I've done, the database tables have some kind of audit trail fields. Sometimes this is a separate "audit log" table where all inserts, updates, deletes, and possibly even queries are logged. Other times there are the four...

14 replies - 57718 views - 08/27/08 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

Qi4j: REST EntityStore and SPARQL EntityFinder = rich client web apps!

From my work on SiteVision I've become quite fond of writing rich clients using applets or JavaWebStart, with Swing, and then connect back to the server for state. I can understand why not so many others are doing it though, since you more or less need a...

0 replies - 5237 views - 08/18/08 by Rickard Oberg in News