ByThorben JanssenFull-text search has become a common requirement for modern enterprise applications, and there are several good implementations available, like Apache Lucene and Elasticsearch. They provide powerful indexing and search capabilities that allow you to easily add full-text search capabilities to your application. But one important questions remains when you decide to add Apache Lucene or…
ByThorben JanssenValidation is an important task, but it’s most often also tedious to implement. It’s a good thing that the BeanValidation specification and Hibernate Validator as it’s reference implementation take over most of the work. They provide an easy to use, standardized way to validate object attributes and method parameters. And the best thing, they integrate…
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 you like me to answer, please leave a comment below. Question: How can I map an enum attribute to a database column? Which option should I prefer?
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 you like me to answer, please leave a comment below. Question: My application performs a lot of similar queries and I need to find the output of a specific query…
ByThorben JanssenJPQL is a powerful query language that allows you to define database queries based on your entity model. Its structure and syntax are very similar to SQL. But there is an important difference that I want to point out before I walk you through the different parts of a JPQL query. JPQL uses the entity…