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 found this question on StackOverflow and thought it’s a great fit for the Hibernate Tips series: I want…
JPA’s @Basic annotation supports a fetch attribute that you can use to define the FetchType of an entity attribute. That seems to be the same approach as you use to define the fetching behavior of an entity association. So, lazy loading of non-relational entity attributes should be easy, right? Well, unfortunately, it isn’t that easy….
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 table model contains a normal one-to-many association using a foreign key column on the table that represents the…
In JPA, the persistence.xml file is the central piece of configuration. That makes it one of the most important files of your persistence layer. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the JPA for Beginners in the Persistence Hub contains an entire lecture about it. And I thought it’s also something that I should share…
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 want to map the latest element of a to-many association as an entity attribute. How can I map…
