Archive for the 'Netbeans' Category

Semtinel Workbench released on Sourceforge

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Finally, after roughly three years of development, Alexander Hanschke and I  now released a version of Semtinel to the public. (more…)

Netbeans Update Center written in PHP

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Do you use Netbeans? It is my favorite IDE for Java development and beside the IDE, it also provides the Netbeans Platform, a GUI framework that makes the development of GUI applications (so called Rich Client Applications) very easy. One of the features, that the Netbeans Platform provides, is the management of updates. The user can easily install and update new modules, the building blocks of a Netbeans Platform application. Now these updates can also be distributed very easily via a simple webserver that supports PHP. (more…)

Hibernate Performance-Tuning

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Today, I spent some time to dive deeply into the heart of the Semtinel Core to fix a performance leak that occured since I did some experiments with rather large annotation sets. I ran into several difficulties that might be interesting to other developers as well, so this post covers the following topics:

  • Tracing of SQL statements for performance tuning of the H2 database.
  • Generating statistics for H2 in order to see, where the time is lost.
  • How to configure a single-value property in Hibernate for lazy fetching using annotations.
  • Extending the Netbeans build.xml, so that the necessary bytecode instrumentation is done automatically at build time.

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