The JSpecify collective has made its first release. The group's mission is to define common sets of annotation types for use in JVM languages, to improve static analysis and language ...

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...

End your tour of Java's essential language features with Java 8's method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates, then preview new features coming ...

Unfortunately, Sun does talk about annotations quite a lot, and they don’t appear to have noticed that this particular new language feature is actually a bit ill-conceived. The EJB 3 spec makes heavy ...