Note by the author:I wrote this post in 2016. Since then, Oracle handed over the Java EE specification to the Eclipse Foundation, and the overall situation has massively improved!Most of the features mentioned in this article have been added as part of JPA 2.2. About 2 years ago, Oracle announced a maintenance release for JPA…
Storing 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.
A while ago, I wrote a post explaining how you can check if Hibernate is a good fit for your new project. One of the key questions you have to ask yourself is if you need to perform a lot of complex queries because JPQL supports only a subset of SQL. SQL is, therefore, often…
Hibernate is by far the most popular JPA implementation. This popularity brings several advantages for all users. There are lots of blog posts about it, questions and answers on popular forums, and well-established best practices. In this post, I want to summarize some best practices for JPA and Hibernate which will help you to avoid…
A few days ago, someone asked me how to map an encrypted database column to an entity attribute. I remembered that I used a @ColumnTransformer for a similar use case, a few years ago. A quick chat with the Hibernate team confirmed that they hadn’t done any major changes in that area and that the…
