Entity Views with Blaze Persistence – The better DTO projections?

Entity Views with Blaze Persistence – The better DTO projections?

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Blaze Persistence’s Entity Views try to solve some of the most common complaints about DTO projections in JPA and Hibernate. Most developers know that DTOs improve the performance of their read operations. But they often avoid using them because it requires boilerplate code and often creates code that’s not easily maintainable. JPA’s DTO support also…

Create better Criteria queries with Blaze persistence

Create better Criteria queries with Blaze persistence

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The Blaze Persistence project provides an interesting alternative to JPA’s Criteria API. Both APIs enable you to define queries dynamically at runtime. Most developers use it to create query statements based on user input or the result of a business operation. Unfortunately, JPA’s Criteria API isn’t very popular because it’s hard to read and write….