Auditing Entities With JPA Events

An alternative is if you are using a generic DAO class to handle entity persistence is to put the enhanced populateTimestamp method on there and call it prior to inserting or updating the entity in the DAO

Spring is controlled by ONE COMPANY. It is not an independent open source organization like Apache. At least with Java EE there are multiple OPEN SOURCE implementations. How long before VMWare decides its $500 million investment needs to be recouped and they start charging for Spring in a big way? Don’t think it can happen? Think again…VMWare is in the same poor position BEA/WLS was against JBoss with Red Hat’s VM/Cloud tech eating away at VMWare’s margins. There is a much higher chance of them scrambling for revenue sources than Red hat ever being acquired by Oracle.

Core JavaServer Faces JSF 2.0 Cookbook JavaServer Faces 2.0, The Complete Reference EJB 3.1 Cookbook Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 Beginning Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Java EE 6 with GlassFish 3 Application Server Java EE 6 Development With NetBeans 7 Real World Java EE Patterns Rethinking Best Practices Real World Java EE Night Hacks Dissecting the Business Tier

books about the different APIs of Java EE 6:

EA Navigator

free and open-source

quick navigation between different elements in a model, especially between those elements that are not easily found using the standard EA features

Data Management

Tide provides an integration between the Flex/LCDS concept of managed entities and the server persistence context (JPA or Hibernate)

Tide maintains a client-side cache of entity instances and ensures that every instance is unique in the Flex client context

The Developer-Tester Divide

working software as the goal

business value first