Yesterday, 1 October 2017, was my 1 year anniversary of quitting my day job and starting as an independent trainer and consultant. To be honest, it feels like yesterday that I said goodbye to my coworkers and started to work for myself. This was the quickest, most intense, challenging, stressful and fun year I ever…
JPA 2.2 introduced several new features, and one of them is the new getResultStream() method. This method is now part of the Query interface. As you might guess from its name, it allows you to retrieve the result of your query as a Stream. The goal of this method is to provide an efficient way to…
Last month was the most relaxing one since I launched my first online course in 2016. My family and I went on a vacation and I almost did not work for 3 weeks. And the best part about it, I prepared almost all posts and videos in advance so that you (hopefully) didn’t even recognize…
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 leave a comment below. Question: I have a many-to-many association to the superclass of an inheritance hierarchy. How can I select only a certain…
JPA 2.2 was just a small maintenance release, but it nevertheless brought some interesting changes. You probably already know about some of the new features, like the retrieval of a query result as a Stream or the support for classes of the Date and Time API. These are the most popular changes but not the…