EJB 3.1 introduced timeout related annotations as a part of its API.

• @AccessTimeout
• @StatefulTimeout

Let’s quickly look at what they are and why are they important

As a long time Eclipse user, I want to give a more serious look to IntelliJ IDEA. The people from JetBrains were very nice and granted me an open source license for the Podcastpedia.org  and Codepedia.org projects. In the post I listed some of the things I use often in Eclipse and their equivalent in IntelliJ. I wrote this post so I can bookmark it and come back to, whenever I forget something, and if it helps others the better.

I’ve been lagging behind with what Java 8 features exercising concerns, so in this post I will briefly present my initial experience with lambdas and streams.

AngularJs is often seen as a viable solution for building full scale single page web applications. Although that is a good use case for Angular, in this post we will explore how the framework can also be used to incrementally add functionality to any web page in general, in some cases with little to no Javascript needed (example).

Introduction

JPA translates entity state transitions to database DML statements. Because it’s common to operate on entity graphs, JPA allows us to propagate entity state changes from Parents to Child entities.

This behavior is configured through the CascadeType mappings.