Do JPA and Hibernate really fit the project you’re about to start? This important question gets not asked often enough! And if you don’t think about it in the beginning, it will be difficult to change your mind after the project starts. Most often, the persistence framework gets selected based on personal preferences. And while…
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: Hibernate does not use the first- and second-level for queries. Is there any way to cache the result…
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: How do you configure Hibernate so that it writes the executed SQL statements and used bind parameters to…
Representing associations between entities as attributes is one of the most comfortable and popular features of JPA and Hibernate. It makes it very easy to navigate from one entity to one or more associated entities in your Java code, like from a Person entity to the corresponding Address entity. You can also use the association…
JPA supports a set of database functions which you can use to perform small operations and transformations within a query. This is often easier and faster than doing it in the Java code. But how do you call functions which are not supported by the JPA standard, like database-specific ones or the custom functions implemented…
