8:00 – 4:30 CSIP

• Now that I have my Hibernate Eclipse plugins working, back to chapter 9.
• Well, the plugins work fine, but when I tried to add an element to a query, the build broke and I was unable to get it to work again, even after restoring to the earliest version. Went on to chapter 12, but the DB appears to broken there too.
• According to Dong, this is because the HSQL instance is not persisted in the test, so all the data drops out. Switching the dialect to MySQL, which runs as a service on my box fixed all problems but one – an exception that said the DB couldn’t be reached. Which was odd, because it was accessed and the tables were created and populated. Go figure.
• Talked to Mike about his experience with dynamic object creation using Hibernate. It looks pretty straightforward, as long as you have a ‘generic’ object that is wrapped around Map(s) (Collections?) of some kind. Now I need to see if I can build a Drools engine that will reason over elements in a collection contained in an object.