How to persist additional attributes for an association with JPA and Hibernate
JPA and Hibernate allow you to define associations between entities with just a few annotations, and you don’t have to care about the underlying table…
8 things you need to know when migrating to Hibernate 6.x
Hibernate 6 has been released for a while, and the latest Spring Data JPA version includes it as a dependency. So, it’s no surprise that…
Think twice before using an object mapping library to get your DTOs
I often get asked if I can recommend any object mapping library to map entity objects to DTOs. And you can find several discussions and…
How to map composite column types with Hibernate
When most developers design their table and entity models, they create tables that only use basic column types and map these to basic entity attributes.…
How to use PostgreSQL’s JSONB data type with Hibernate
Most databases offer many proprietary features besides the known SQL standard. One example is PostgreSQL’s JSONB data type which allows you to store JSON documents…