What’s new in JPA 2.2
JPA 2.2 was only a small release, and I think that’s ok. JPA 2.1 already provides a good enough toolset for most applications. But there was nevertheless some work to do.
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Ordering vs Sorting with Hibernate – What should you use?
OK, first of all, I’m sorry about the distinction between ordering and sorting. My English teacher would probably be mad at me if she would read this. But I didn’t come up with the names. That’s how the features are called in Hibernate. And yes, that are 2 different features. Both allow you to define…
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How to map an association as a java.util.Map
The java.util.List<SomeEntityClass> is the most common representation of a to-many association with JPA and Hibernate. But is it also the one that you want to use in your domain model? Does it fit your use cases or do you need smarter access to the associated elements? Let’s be honest, a simple java.util.List is good enough…
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Mapping Definitions in JPA and Hibernate – Annotations, XML or both?
If you’re using Hibernate for several years, you might remember the time when you had to define all your mappings in the orm.xml file. You had a bunch of Java classes that represented your domain model and a long XML file with the mapping and query information. One of the main challenges with that approach…
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5 new features in Hibernate 5 every developer should know
The 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…
