jOOQ Newsletter: January 22, 2014

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Tweet of the Day

We are contributing this new section of the newsletter to our followers, users, and customers. Here are:

Jose M. Arranz who has had plans to build jOOQ, when he happily discovered that jOOQ already exists

@lukaseder I agree, when I finish RelProxy I was thinking on doing something like jOOQ, stupid idea, jOOQ is simply GREAT!—
Jose M. Arranz (@jmarranz) December 31, 2013

Majid Azimi who wishes for jOOQ to become the new de facto standard in all languages. (we wish for the same, shocker, I know)

#JOOQ must become de facto standard for database querying. All languages must have one… AWESOME…—
Majid Azimi (@majidazimi) January 08, 2014

jOOQ 3.3 Preview

We’re closing in on releasing jOOQ 3.3 towards the beginning of February 2014, which is an exciting release for both existing and new jOOQ users. Apart from many defects fixed, there are now also

• MS Access support through the JDBC-ODBC bridge contained in JDK 6 or 7. This support will be available for jOOQ Express / Professional / Enterprise customers.
• Support for CROSS APPLY / OUTER APPLY / LATERAL joins.
• Support for keyset paging.
• Support for JSON data loading.

… and much more. jOOQ Open Source Edition users can download a preview from GitHub, commercial users can request a pre-built download directly from us.

The Data Geekery Business Case at RedHat’s opensource.com

At Data Geekery, we’re in close touch with various communities, among which those by Oracle or RedHat. RedHat has been selling Open Source software as a business model for a long time. In the enterprise, apart from the flagship RHEL, RedHat is also providing support for a variety of other stacks, such as the JBoss platform, or cloud computing solutions

We’re thrilled to present to you our feature article on RedHat’s opensource.com platform, where we have published an article on our own commercial Open Source business case:

http://opensource.com/business/14/1/how-to-transition-open-source-to-revenue

This is the first part of a series of blog posts. In the next part, we’re going to talk about the five lessons learned when making a business of Open Source, so stay tuned!

Community Work

In the last few weeks, there had been a couple of excellent blog posts by jOOQ community members, which we do not want to keep from you. In December, Gregor Riegler has written a witty rant about the Annotation Nightmare, which we’re increasingly suffering from in the Java ecosystem. Declarative programming at its best.

In January 2014, Petri Kainulainen has started writing a series of excellent blog posts and tutorials for new jOOQ users. The first two posts he has written can be seen here:

• Using jOOQ with Spring: Configuration
• Using jOOQ with Spring: Code Generation

Petri is a very active blogger, whom we have been following for a while now. We’re eagerly looking forward to future posts about jOOQ from him.

There are more goodies. Johannes Bühler has contributed new functionality around the loader API and JSON, whereas Darren Shepherd who is a very active contributor to Apache CloudStack has been very active on the jOOQ User Group as well, discovering many issues. Thank you very much for all your help, guys!

Upcoming Events

In January, we have been visiting the JUG-HH in Hamburg for our talk about jOOQ. This was a very exciting and welcoming event with a heavily “JPA / JEE – biased” audience. Thrilling to see how jOOQ (and SQL!) finds high resonance in this kind of industry!

Here is an overview of our upcoming events. We’re very happy to talk at geecon this year!

• January 23, 2014: Rhein JUG in Düsseldorf (German)
• January 27, 2014: JUGM in Munich (German)
• May 14 – 16, 2014: Geecon in Kraków (English)

Stay informed about 2014 events on www.jooq.org/news.

SQL Zone – DEFAULT values

We’re always surprised ourselves at the depth and breadth of the SQL language, and we love share our discoveries with you. Few people know that in SQL (in the standard and in many SQL dialects), you can use the DEFAULT keyword in INSERT and UPDATE statements. Read more about DEFAULT VALUES on our blog.

SQL Zone – JDBC Batch

In heavy-throughput environments, SQL users rely on vendor-specific tools, such as Oracle’s SQL*Loader. In slightly less performance-critical environments, JDBC batch operations are still good enough. But how good are they compared to standalone statements? The answer is: very good. But not in all databases / JDBC drivers. We have found a very interesting benchmark by James Sutherland, which we want to share with you.