Projection is one of the first things you’re probably thinking about when implementing a query with Spring Data JPA. This is because projection defines the entity attributes and the database columns returned by your query. So, selecting the right columns is important for your business logic. At the same time, projection is also crucial for…
Using JPA’s and Hibernate’s 2nd level cache can improve the performance of your persistence layer. It acts as a session-independent entity store. Hibernate uses it whenever you call the find method on your EntityManager or traverse an association to fetch a cached entity. Instead of executing a database query, Hibernate gets the entity object from…
Lombok is a popular framework among Java developers because it generates repetitive boilerplate code like getter and setter methods, equals and hashCode methods, and the default constructor. All you need to do is add a few annotations to your class and Lombok will add the required code at compile time. This works reasonably well for…
All applications that get deployed to production should use an automated approach to migrate their database. It makes your job a lot easier. It also ensures you don’t miss any changes during the update process. That’s, of course, also true if you develop your application based on Spring Boot. The integration of Flyway and Liquibase…
JPA and Hibernate require you to write lots of Strings. You use them to create ad-hoc and named queries with JPQL, to define native SQL queries and to specify the fetching behavior in an EntityGraph. Until Java 13, the lack of multiline Strings in Java made all of these tasks either annoying to implement or…