SoftwareEngineering

Application-created persistence units

Native Hibernate applications

native (i.e. non-JPA)

JPA applications that create an EntityManagerFactory on their own, either using the PersistenceProvider SPI directly or through an intermediary mechanism such as Spring's LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean

standard Java EE-applications may ignore the provider implementation and rely on the standard features provided by the container - JBoss AS7 supporting standard JPA 1.0 and 2.0

future versions of JBoss AS7 it will be possible to use alternative persistence provider implementations

GraniteDS now fully supports Hibernate 4

use the granite-hibernate4.jar instead of granite-hibernate.jar

Flex 4.5 broke a few APIs and there were two main issues with Tide : The client libraries crashed when run in a mobile application The PagedQuery was unusable

These two issues are now fixed

granite-flex45.swc

Flex SDK 4.5 here

JBoss AS Tools

able to deploy my application directly from the workspace

bad news is that JBoss AS 7 does not currently support other persistence providers like Eclipselink, OpenJPA or DataNucleus

GlassFish and Resin, you can simply drop the JARs of your preferred provider and its dependencies in a designated folder of your server installation and edit your persistence.xml to override the default provider of the server

JBoss AS 7 appears to require an adapter per persistence provider, which to me looks like an unfortunate and unnecessary design decision

documentation continues to be sketchy and far below the standard of JBoss AS 5

top-level performance

classloader leaks

productivity issues of the Eclipse integration

lack of support for JPA providers other than Hibernate

Each of these is currently a blocker for using JBoss AS 7 in production

Redeployment

after a couple of redeployments, there was an OutOfMemoryError

new classloader leak

JBoss AS 7: Catching up with Java EE 6

Performance measurements

JBoss AS 7.0.2

GlassFish 3.1.1

Empty server startup time 1.9 s

3.2 s

Empty server heap memory 10.5 MB

26.5 MB

Empty server PermGen memory 36.3 MB

28.4 MB

MyApp deployment time 5.8 s

JBoss AS 7 is now at a competitive level with Resin and Glassfish and actually outperforms Glassfish in almost all of these tests

character encoding

could either be automatically detected from the server configuration, or could be configured by the user through the useUnicode and characterEncoding properties

character encoding between client and server is automatically detected upon connection

character_set_server for server versions 4.1.0 and newer

To override the automatically detected encoding on the client side, use the characterEncoding property in the URL used to connect to the server.