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 ...

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 ...

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 ...