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 for a future Hibernate Tip, please leave a comment below. Question: My domain model contains a many-to-one association in which the child entity can’t exist without its parent. Can Hibernate…
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 for a future Hibernate Tip, please leave a comment below. Question: I need to persist a simple List of Strings. Do I really need to create an extra entity for…
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 for a future Hibernate Tip, please leave a comment below. Question: I need the elements of a mapped association as a java.util.Map. Do I have to implement a helper method…
When you model your database, you will most likely define several many-to-one or one-to-many associations. And it’s, of course, the same when you model your entities. It’s quite easy to do that with JPA and Hibernate. You just need an attribute that represents the association and annotate it with a @ManyToOne or @OneToMany association. But…
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 need to initialize the associations of multiple entities. Is there a way to tell Hibernate to fetch the…