Last 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,…
Hibernate 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: I want to use a database setup script instead of Hibernate’s schema generation. What’s the easiest way to create…
This post was originally published on sitepoint’s Java channel: 5 Reasons to Use JPA / Hibernate. Before we dive into the reasons to use JPA, let me quickly explain what it is. The Java Persistence API (JPA) is a specification for object-relational mapping in Java. As for most standards within the Java Community Process, it…
Hibernate 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 query is too complex for JPQL, and I have to use a native query. What is the easiest…
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…
