ByThorben JanssenHibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please post a comment below. Question: One of the readers of my article about using Hibernate with a MySQL database asked the following question: What is…
ByThorben JanssenHibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please post a comment below. Question: I modeled a one-to-one association and activated lazy loading for it. But it doesn’t work. How do I tell…
ByThorben JanssenDatabases use the data types BLOB (binary large object) and CLOB (character large object) to store large objects, like images and very long texts. JPA and Hibernate provide two kinds of mappings for these types. You can choose if you want to: Materialize the LOB and map it to a byte[] or a String. This…
ByThorben JanssenHibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please post a comment below. Question: In one of the previous Hibernate Tips, I showed how to remove child entities automatically when you remove their…
ByThorben JanssenMapping a primary key column with JPA and Hibernate is simple. You just need to add an attribute to your entity, make sure that its type and name match the database column, annotate it with @Column and you’re done. You can then use the primary key to load the entity, and Hibernate sets the primary…