Announcement

• Meeting: Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG (SV-WEB-JUG)
• Date: May 20, 2008
• Cost: Always FREE to all!
• Topic: Writing JPA Applications
• Speakers: Patrick Linskey

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Description

In this talk, Patrick explores the Java Persistence API, and examines some common practices for how to write applications that use JPA. Patrick will focus more on API usage than on mapping configuration, and will look at the bootstrapping and runtime behavior of JPA applications. You will learn about JPA's optimistic locking semantics, including the benefits of optimistic read locks. Patrick looks at when it's appropriate to use the different facilities of the Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL), and also discusses common extensions to the spec, including performance caching, pessimistic locking, and fetch strategies.

Agenda

18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Patrick Linskey

Speaker Bios

Patrick Linskey has been involved in object/relational mapping for 6+ 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 one of the key members of the Apache OpenJPA project, delivering an enterprise-grade JPA implementation. Patrick is involved in several industry consortia, serving as a luminary on JDOcentral. He has been the face of standards-based persistence, having evangelized JDO and JPA 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 400 customers throughout the world spanning all industries, and is now the basis for the WebLogic Server EJB persistence provider. Patrick holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Location

Google, Inc. (GooglePlex Map)
Tunis Conference Room, (Bldg. 43)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Please enter from the north side of the building, in the middle of the Google campus. Also, parking will be much easier to find in the lots south of Bldg. 44 across the street from the main complex.

Sponsors

Google for conference room and snacks

This meeting is being co-sponsored by our sister JUG, the Silicon Valley JUG.