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: My domain model contains a many-to-one association in which the child entity can’t exist without its parent. Can Hibernate…
As expected, the recent release of the JPA 2.2 specification introduced official support for some of the classes of the Date and Time API. Before that, you had to rely on proprietary features, like the ones introduced in Hibernate 5, or you had to provide an AttributeConverter to implement the mapping. Let’s take a closer…
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 need to persist a simple List of Strings. Do I really need to create an extra entity for…
After I talked about how to add Liquibase to your project and how to update your database together with your application code, it’s time to integrate Liquibase into your application so that you can execute the update automatically. Special thanks to Carlos Feria who asked for this post in a comment. The automatic execution of the…
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: My table model uses a timestamp instead of a numeric column for versioning. How can I use this column…