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’m using Hibernate via the EntityManager API. Is there any way to access the proprietary Hibernate Session and SessionFactory?
Hibernate is by far the most popular JPA implementation. This popularity brings several advantages for all users. There are lots of blog posts about it, questions and answers on popular forums, and well-established best practices. In this post, I want to summarize some best practices for JPA and Hibernate which will help you to avoid…
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: Some of my use cases are slow and seem to perform too many queries. How can I count all…
A few days ago, someone asked me how to map an encrypted database column to an entity attribute. I remembered that I used a @ColumnTransformer for a similar use case, a few years ago. A quick chat with the Hibernate team confirmed that they hadn’t done any major changes in that area and that the…
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…
