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 you like me to answer, please leave a comment below. Question: I want to exclude some records from an association mapping. How can I filter the elements of a mapped…
If you’re using Hibernate for several years, you might remember the time when you had to define all your mappings in the orm.xml file. You had a bunch of Java classes that represented your domain model and a long XML file with the mapping and query information. One of the main challenges with that approach…
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 you like me to answer, please leave a comment below. Question: The value of one of the attributes of my entity has to be within a defined range. What is…
A common misconception when working with Hibernate is that you can only map database tables and don’t use any other database features. That’s not the case, as I want to show you in this post. You can also use lots of other features which allow you to: Map read-only database views Call database functions Execute…
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 you like me to answer, please leave a comment below. Question: My table model contains a many-to-one association. How do I model it with Hibernate so that I can navigate…