Tiles2 with Spring without Spring MVC

In the process of making my application OSGI enabled, I came to the conclusion that it would help me better to have Tiles2 to be managed by Spring. This is so as to have more control of the Tiles2 configuration instead of the configuration needed in web.xml. This is when I found the TilesConfigurer class from Spring. Here is a snippet of for my configuration.

Generics and DAOs

Since the coming of Hibernate 3, I have started to refactor a lot of code that I simply didn't need anymore. Among these, my data access objects have always seemed repetitive. Repetition (in my opinion) calls for code refactoring. The hibernate tools project aims at fixing this problem by providing a "Dao Code Generator" which can certainly help. Additionally, other tools out there offer similar solutions, however one must understand how much the JVM will have to use in working with our "dao-centric" application. Can we do better?

With the introduction of Generics in Java 5, I found a good way to make good use of this generic approach to DAO's without breaking my application logic. Consider the following code: