Note by the author:I wrote this post in 2016. Since then, Oracle handed over the Java EE specification to the Eclipse Foundation, and the overall situation has massively improved!Most of the features mentioned in this article have been added as part of JPA 2.2. About 2 years ago, Oracle announced a maintenance release for JPA…
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 define the name of the database schema and table which will be used to persist my…
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 database administrator set up a trigger to generate the value of a database column. How can map this…
Storing the creation timestamp or the timestamp of the last update is a common requirement for modern applications. It sounds like a simple requirement, but for a huge application, you don’t want to set a new update timestamp in every use case that changes the entity.
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 and progress…