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Webinar: EJB3 Java Persistence API: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Date: This event took place on February 01 2007

Presentation:

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Description:

The EJB3 Java Persistence API (JPA) is the successor to the oft-lambasted EJB2 container-managed persistence entity bean model. How well does it meet its goals? Will it get a better reception than its predecessors? In this talk, Patrick Linskey (EJB team lead at BEA, member of the EJB expert group and standards-based persistence evangelist) discusses his thoughts about the best and the worst of the JPA. Patrick categorizes key features (and missing features) as good, bad, or just plain ugly. Come get a glimpse of what's coming to a JVM near you, and hear Patrick's predictions about upcoming best practices and antipatterns.

After this session, you will understand more about the capabilities and boundaries of the JPA specification, and you will take away knowledge about how best to develop JPA applications.

Presenter:

Patrick Linskey has been involved in object/relational mapping for 5+ years. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drove the technical direction of the company and oversaw the development of Kodo. Now at BEA, he leads the EJB team in designing and implementation of the WebLogic Server EJB solution. Patrick is one of the leaders on the EJB3 and the JDO specification teams, and is BEA's representative on the EJB3 expert group. Patrick is involved in several industry consortia, serving as a luminary on JDOcentral and as the moderator on forthcoming JavaPersistence.com. He has been the face of standards-based persistence, having evangelized JDO and EJB persistence in hundreds of talks throughout the world. Patrick is co-author of Bitter EJB, and is on the JAOO Conference Program Committee. Patrick has also worked for TechTrader, MIT's Media Lab and Bank One in various technical roles. Under Patrick's leadership, Kodo has become the market leading JDO implementation with over 350 customers throughout the world spanning all industries, and is now the basis for the WebLogic Server EJB persistence provider. Patrick holds a BS in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.