ByThorben JanssenIf you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I wrote several articles about features and enhancements introduced with JPA 2.1. One thing that was missing, was a general overview about all the changes. So here it is 🙂The following paragraphs provide a description of the 12 features and enhancements introduced with…
ByThorben JanssenLazy loading of associations between entities is a well established best practice in JPA. Its main goal is to retrieve only the requested entities from the database and load the related entities only if needed. That is a great approach if you only need the requested entities. But it creates additional work and can be…
ByThorben JanssenThis post was written together with Aslak Knutsen (@aslakknutsen). JPA Attribute Converters provide an easy way to define how an entity attribute gets persisted to the database. You can use them to implement lots of different features, e.g. to encrypt your data as I showed in a previous post: How to use a JPA Attribute Converter…
ByThorben JanssenA few days ago, I read an interesting article by Bear Giles about Database encryption using JPA listeners from 2012. He discusses his requirements for an encryption solution and provides a code example with JPA listeners. His main requirements are: provide transparent encryption that does not affect the application, be able to add the encryption…
ByThorben JanssenThis is my second post on Entity Graphs. The first post described the usage of named entity graphs. These can be used to define a graph of entities and/or attributes at compile time that shall be fetched with a find or query method. Dynamic entity graphs do to the same but in a dynamic way. This…