session.createSQLQuery()

Hibernate provides us with the option to fire explicit SQL queries. But with the presence of HQL and Criteria why would one want to do that ?

Getting the total records while using pagination

We often have grids in our application where we need to show the results as pages. There is also often a row of text making the claim " Record  1 to 30 of 100". While the bounds of the result can be obtained easily as we know the limits to apply, it is getting the total record count that is interesting.

Select in Criteria using SQL

In an earlier post we saw how Criteria provided us with the ability to add restrictions in the where clause using pure SQL. The next question would then be if Criteria allows SQL in select clause ?

The first CXF Service - 2

In the previous post we created and deployed the Echo webservice. Now to test the same. For this I created a simple client.

The first CXF Service

In the previous post we saw how JAX-WS 's RI implementation could be used to build and interact with web services. I decided to work with one of the other implementations - Apache CXF. I decided to create and run a code first webservice using CXF implementation.