This post demonstrates how to use a Groovy script to transform a Maven project property. Such a transformation is sometimes necessary, for example, for transforming a Windows-style path to Unix. For myself, I formalized this solution while trying to install a jar in PostgreSQL automatically during the artifact deployment phase.

This tutorial presents an exploration of the Hibernate second-level cache. By the end, we will have the tools to integrate Ehcache into a web application and to expire its entries at fixed, regular intervals using the Quartz scheduler to run a Spring batch process.

This article explains three techniques for generating primary keys when using Hibernate and Oracle.

The purpose of this entry is to provide a short tutorial for setting up a Maven2 project that uses Spring 3.0 to schedule a Quartz batch job, to inject Spring-managed beans into this Quartz-managed job, to use Spring to test the job, and to setup a distributable, runnable assembly for the project.