Today, I will send the book to my copyeditor. It feels great and scary at the same time. Great, because I’m finally done with editing and scary because I can’t change the content anymore. I got great feedback from the reviewers, so I shouldn’t be too scared. But it’s still a huge step. Copyediting, cover…
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-many association. How can I model it with Hibernate so that I can navigate…
That was another quick week. It almost feels like I posted the last update yesterday. But it has been a whole week. I spend most of the time reviewing and improving the first draft. That’s not really an interesting task, but it’s good to see the book getting better and better. What was a lot…
When I announced that I had quit my day job to work full-time on Thoughts on Java, I got a lot of great feedback and questions about my plans for the site. If you’re interested in these kinds of posts, I’m happy to give you a look behind the scenes and share my monthly goals…
Facetting is another interesting feature provided by Hibernate Search. It allows you to group your FullTextQuery results in categories. You often see this in online shops which present the search results in different product categories or on websites which categorize their articles by date. This is the 3rd post in my series about Hibernate Search,…
