ByThorben JanssenThe CascadeTypes REMOVE and ALL, which includes REMOVE, provide a comfortable option to remove an entity together with all its child entities. But it creates several issues for to-many associations, and you should only use it for to-one relationships.
ByThorben JanssenPostgreSQL is one of the most popular relational databases, and Hibernate is probably the most popular JPA implementation. So, it’s no surprise that they’re often used together and that you don’t have to expect any major issues doing that. But as so often, there is a difference between “it works” and “it works great”. Out…
ByThorben JanssenOK, first of all, I’m sorry about the distinction between ordering and sorting. My English teacher would probably be mad at me if she would read this. But I didn’t come up with the names. That’s how the features are called in Hibernate. And yes, that are 2 different features. Both allow you to define…
ByThorben JanssenA lot of developers seem to have a love-hate relationship with JPA and Hibernate. They love it because it makes it easy to implement most use cases and they hate it because it also makes it easy to implement very inefficient queries. In the past, I was one of these developers myself. I liked to…
ByThorben JanssenIn the previous posts of this series, I showed you how to add Hibernate Envers to your project to write an audit log and how to use its query API to search in your audit log. These posts provide you an introduction to Hibernate Envers and allow you to write a basic audit log. But the default…