Hibernate Envers is a popular library that automates the creation of an audit log. As I’ve shown in previous articles, it logs all write operations performed using your entity classes in an audit log and provides a flexible API to query data from that log. Based on these articles, I got recently asked if Hibernate…
Hibernate Envers automatically integrates with Hibernate ORM and provides a powerful and easy to use solution to write an audit log. As I described in a previous post, you just need to add Envers to your classpath and annotate your entities with @Audited. It will then document all insert, update and delete operations and you…
In the previous posts of this series, I showed you how to add Hibernate Envers to your project to write an audit log and how to use its query API to search in your audit log. These posts provide you an introduction to Hibernate Envers and allow you to write a basic audit log. But the default…
This post is the second one in my series about Hibernate Envers. In the previous post, I showed you how to add Envers to your project, let it document all changes of your audited entities and perform basic queries to retrieve data from your log. That was everything you need to get started with Hibernate…
A lot of business applications require an audit log that documents all changes that were performed on the managed data. There are lots of different options to implement such a log. One of them is Hibernate Envers. It just takes a few annotations to document all changes in the audit tables, and Envers also provides…