Migrating to Hibernate 6
Hibernate 6 has been released for a while, and I see more and more teams migrating their persistence layers or at least preparing for the…
Create better Criteria queries with Blaze persistence
The Blaze Persistence project provides an interesting alternative to JPA’s Criteria API. Both APIs enable you to define queries dynamically at runtime. Most developers use…
6 Performance Pitfalls when using Spring Data JPA
Thanks to its ease of use, Spring Data JPA is an incredibly popular persistence framework. If developers have something to complain about, they usually criticize…
Database portability – Pitfalls when supporting multiple RDBMS with Hibernate
The JPA specification and Hibernate, as its most popular implementation, claim to provide database portability. That means you don’t need to change your persistence code…
The differences between Spring Data JPA’s save, saveAndFlush and saveAll methods
Spring Data JPA’s standard repositories provide a set of methods that handle common operations used by most persistence layers. That saves us a lot of…