JPA and Hibernate are a great fit to implement persist and update use cases, and simple queries. But most applications need a lot more than that. You need to be able to use the full feature set of SQL to implement your queries. That’s why JPA supports native queries. But it’s not comfortable to use….
It’s almost the end of 2017. If you’re like me, you might be thinking about what you want to change or improve in 2018. Maybe, you want to learn more about Java and improve your development skills. That has been one of my goals for the last several years. It has become a habit to…
I’m sorry to tell you that I will no longer publish the Java Weekly series. I know that a lot of you liked this series and I really enjoyed writing it. But based on my understanding of 2 recent court decisions and the blog posts of several German lawyers, publishing links to other websites puts me at…
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 entity model contains an inheritance structure, and I need to limit my query to a specific subclass. How…
There are a lot of complaints about the lacking progress on Java EE 8 and that the standard doesn’t address modern challenges and trends. But I don’t want to argue about that … at least in not in this post. Today, I want to talk about something huge that happened at the DevNation 2016 keynote….