ByThorben JanssenJPA 2.1 introduced the annotation-based Named Entity Graphs and the Entity Graph API. They provide query-independent ways to define which entity attributes Hibernate shall fetch from the database. And while you can’t omit eagerly fetched associations or attributes with Hibernate, you can specify a query-specific eager loading for a graph of associations. Sounds great, doesn’t…
ByThorben JanssenHibernate 5.3 is available for a little more than 3 months now, and last week, the team released the 3rd maintenance release. So, it’s about time to take a closer look at the new version. In addition to more than 100 bug fixes, Hibernate 5.3 includes a few features and improvements that might motivate you to…
ByThorben JanssenThe Hibernate team published the first Hibernate 5 release quite a while ago, and since then they introduced a bunch of new features. I explained several of them here on the blog, and it’s about time to have a look at the most popular ones. Based on the search traffic I get from google and…
ByThorben JanssenStoring 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.
ByThorben JanssenHibernate 5.2 introduced several changes based on Java 8 features. In previous posts, I showed you how to get query results as a Stream and the support of DateTime API classes and Optional. In this post, I will have a look at a small change to some Hibernate annotations. Some of them are now @Repeatable…