A lot of developers seem to have a love-hate relationship with JPA and Hibernate. They love it because it makes it easy to implement most use cases and they hate it because it also makes it easy to implement very inefficient queries. In the past, I was one of these developers myself. I liked to…
2016 is coming to an end, and it’s the perfect time to take a moment to look back at the last 12 months. I would normally call it an interesting and eventful year, but that would be a huge understatement. Thoughts on Java and myself have grown as never before. For most of the time,…
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: How can I persist an entity together with all its child entities?
In the previous posts of this series, I showed you how to add Hibernate Envers to your project to write an audit log and how to use its query API to search in your audit log. These posts provide you an introduction to Hibernate Envers and allow you to write a basic audit log. But the default…
Hibernate Tips is a new 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 initialize an entity attribute automatically before it gets persisted. How can I execute custom code…