Nicolas Brasseur, JavaBlackBelt

Nicolas is co-founder and managing director of JavaBlackBelt, a Java focused education company. He teaches and coaches Java development teams. He not only teaches standard courses such as J2SE, Servlets/JSPs, JSFs, Hibernate, ... he also devises specialized, custom courses and coaching.

Nicolas co-founded JavaBlackBelt.com, a community web site dedicated to providing technical exams and study quizzes about Java related technologies.

Presentation: "Hibernate"

Track: Solution Track 1

Time: Wednesday 14:30 - 15:30

Location: Wordsworth Room

Abstract:

Technologies like Hibernate are complex and time-consuming to learn. This presentation shows 7 diagrams explained using 5 minute animations, that cover the major topics of Hibernate:

Types - Mapping Simple Types
Types - User Types
Relationships - Entity Relationships
Relationships - Fetching strategies
Concurrency - Optimistic locking
Concurrency - Pessimistic Locking
Caching - 2nd Level Caching.

Nicolas, who authored these animations, will explain and comment about them Participants receive printed versions of the diagram presented. The points of this presentation are to: - show a new way of teaching/learning - explain Hibernate 3, and O/R Mapping concepts.