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The Ingres Dictionary for OpenJPA is now part of the main Apache OpenJPA release (trunk and version 1.3.0). Download it now from [url=http://openjpa.apache.org]openjpa.apache.org[/url].

To use Ingres as the data store, set the openjpa.ConnectionDriverName property to com.ingres.jdbc.IngresDriver and the openjpa.ConnectionURL property to the Ingres JDBC URL. You can also set openjpa.ConnectionUserName and openjpa.ConnectionPassword if required. Finally ensure that the iijdbc.jar...

Earlier this year we completed a major piece of work on a project to migrate one of our clients’ Windows [url=http://www.ingres.com/]Ingres[/url] 2.6 databases to [url=http://www.ingres.com/about/press/08-1118-database.php]Ingres 9.2[/url] on [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux]Linux[/url]. So what’s so special about that I hear you ask? Well, in addition to implementing the now well rehearsed migration path between differing hardware platforms, operating systems and versions of Ingres,...

I suspect like many, I make use of [url=http://www.google.com/alerts]Google Alerts[/url] to bring to my attention new catalogue entries of matching search criteria. Although I don’t want to be inundated with emails, I have a small selection of carefully chosen words and phrases, of which our beloved [url=http://www.ingres.com/]Ingres[/url] is naturally one.

My daily dose of new entries matching ‘Ingres’ occasionally comes up with a few pleasant findings that I had not already...

Today Ingres announced a new project called Ingres VectorWise that is going to change the way you think about accessing data going forward. Ingres VectorWise is a collaboration between Ingres and VectorWise, a leading database research team from CWI Institute of Amsterdam along with ongoing contributions from Intel. This new project not only speeds up your database queries 10x but does it with a fraction of the hardware. No longer will you be sitting back wondering why your business application...

A few weeks ago, I posted a little bit of information about Maven.

Since then I found a very good reference for Maven: [URL="http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/"]Maven: The Definitive Guide[/URL] by Sonatype.

If you're a Java developer who is unfamiliar with Maven, I strongly recommend that you read it.