ByThorben JanssenOK, 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…
ByThorben JanssenThe 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…
ByThorben JanssenIf 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…
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 JanssenLast weeks Hibernate Tip triggered some discussions on twitter on how you should create your database schema. Is it a good approach to generate your table model based on your entity mappings or should you create it yourself? I think that both approaches are a good first step when you implement a new application. Yes,…