Everyone is building microservices. For the last 1.5 years, it was the dominant architectural style for all new software projects. And while a microservice architecture should make the implementation of each service easier, it also introduces new challenges. That’s especially the case for the persistence layer. So, it’s no surprise that I had lots of…
At the end of 2017, I published the predecessor of this post. For several weeks, it was one of the most popular articles on this blog. It seems like I’m not the only one who enjoys watching good lectures and conference talks about Java on YouTube. It’s one of the easiest and most comfortable ways…
Hibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please post a comment below. Question: Does Hibernate allow me to map an entity to a query instead of a database table? If yes, how…
The access strategy defines how your JPA implementation, e.g., Hibernate or EclipseLink, access your entity attributes. You can choose between field-based access and property-based access: If you use field-based access, your JPA implementation uses reflection to read or write your entity attributes directly. It also expects that you place your mapping annotations on your entity attributes….
Hibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please post a comment below. Question: I’m using a query with a JOIN FETCH clause to load parent entities with all their child entities. The JPQL…
