Java Weekly: April Fools Edition
Normally, I am using the Java Weekly series to collect the most interesting Java related links. But today I prepared a special April Fool Edition for you. I hope you enjoy it.
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My Trip to JavaLand 2015
Last week, I attended the JavaLand 2015 conference in Brühl, Germany. If you follow me on twitter, you have probably seen me tweeting about it. And what shall I say, it was a great conference! Well organized, lots of interesting sessions, great discussions and everything happening in a theme park. Yes, that’s right: it took…
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How to activate Hibernate Statistics to analyze performance issues
Did you ever ask yourself why a server request took ages on the production system while your local test system was just fine?Well, we all had these situations, and we will have several more of them in the future. In my experience, strange performance drops are often related to slow database queries. But which query…
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JPA 2.1 – 12 features every developer should know
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I wrote several articles about features and enhancements introduced with JPA 2.1. One thing that was missing, was a general overview about all the changes. So here it is 🙂The following paragraphs provide a description of the 12 features and enhancements introduced with…
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5 ways to initialize lazy associations and when to use them
Lazy loading of associations between entities is a well established best practice in JPA. Its main goal is to retrieve only the requested entities from the database and load the related entities only if needed. That is a great approach if you only need the requested entities. But it creates additional work and can be…
