Emmanuel Bernard is Core Developer at JBoss and project lead of Hibernate Annotations, Hibertnate Validator and Hibernate Search. After studying Theoretical Computer Science at Supelec, one of the top French Grandes Ecoles, Emmanuel spent time in the Retail Industry as project lead and architect, involving carious technologies including, Java and ORMs. Emmanuel joined the Hibernate team more than 3 years ago, he then focused on EJB 3.0 for JBoss, he is a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the JSR 303: Bean Validation expert group. Emmanuel's blog Check out Emmanuel's Blog here

• Hibernate State of the Union
• Hibernate Search: Search Engine for the Masses

Hibernate: State of the Union
During this talk, Emmanuel walked through state-of-the-art Hibernate technologies. While focusing on Hibernate Core, this talk also covered Hibernate Annotations, Java Persistence with Hibernate, as well as, Hibernate Validator and Hibernate Search. You will be able to see some of the new available features, as well as, what is cooking for the near future.

Grails eXchange presentation
Emmanuel's talk on Hibernate: State of the Union

Grails eXchange podcast



Hibernate Search: Search Engine for the Masses
Search engine technology has been around for a while in Java thanks to the excellent Apache Lucene. The cost of using this kind of technology in traditional Java EE applications has been too high for a massive adoption. Hibernate search aims to simplify this field by providing a search capability for Hibernate persisted domain models without the traditonal hassles such as manuel index synchronization and data coversion to and from. This talk presented the Hibernate Search architecture and its common usages.

Grails eXchange presentation
Emmanuel's talk on HibernateSearch

Grails eXchange podcast
Hibernate Search: Search Engine for the Masses