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 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 often need to provide a value that gets calculated based on an entity attribute, like the age of…
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’m using Hibernate via the EntityManager API. Is there any way to access the proprietary Hibernate Session and SessionFactory?
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…
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: Some of my use cases are slow and seem to perform too many queries. How can I count all…
