Thoughts on Oracle’s Desktop Java Announcement

On March 7th Oracle made a major announcement regarding desktop Java support going forward. In Java releases, starting this September, JavaFX will no longer be bundled with the JDK/JRE. It will still be supported as a part of Java 8 until 2022. JavaFX was the next generation UI toolkit originally released in 2007. Initially itContinue reading “Thoughts on Oracle’s Desktop Java Announcement”

JPA 2.1 (Java EE 7) – working persistence.xml file

I finally got a working persistence.xml for Java EE 7 up and running! With JPA 2.1 generation of the schema is now standardized. This means that you don’t have to use implementation specific flags, such as “eclipselink.ddl-generation” to auto-generate the schema. With Java EE 7, the location of the schema files/namespace has also changed. BelowContinue reading “JPA 2.1 (Java EE 7) – working persistence.xml file”