Emmanuel Bernard

Emmanuel Bernard

Emmanuel Bernard is an Open Source software engineer. Java Champion, he is best known for his lead of Hibernate and Quarkus.

My thoughts on various subjects. I particularly love hacking my work. Either by methodology or by improving my tools. Check out this list of tags / subjects.

Recent Posts

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: EE edition

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I came across some figures regarding downloads of Glassfish and JBoss AS that really puzzled me. Basically Glassfish was downloaded 700.000 times a month (en...

Having problems with Adium and Yahoo IM?

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Yahoo has changed its login protocol, breaking a number of third party IM clients including Adium. The Adium team has released 1.3.5.rc1 which solves the iss...

Java generics end of mystery

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Remember my puzzlement in front of http://blog.emmanuelbernard.com/2009/04/java-generics-mystery.html? I usually try to make sense of the unknown type by l...

Java generics mystery

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Here is a puzzle for Generics gurus. Can somebody explain why Set<Address> addresses = new HashSet<Address>();Set<?> things = addresses; c...

Oracle is buying Sun: best quotes of the day

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Alex Miller: "Next version of Java will be Java SE 7.0.0.0.17832" Emmanuel Bernard: "The day an Oracle swallows the Sun and in front the Business Machine. No...