Hibernate Tips is a new 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 want to initialize an entity attribute automatically before it gets persisted. How can I execute custom code…
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: How can I map an optional to-one association to a Java 8 Optional?
A lot of business applications require an audit log that documents all changes that were performed on the managed data. There are lots of different options to implement such a log. One of them is Hibernate Envers. It just takes a few annotations to document all changes in the audit tables, and Envers also provides…
Last weeks Hibernate Tip triggered some discussions on twitter on how you should create your database schema. Is it a good approach to generate your table model based on your entity mappings or should you create it yourself? I think that both approaches are a good first step when you implement a new application. Yes,…
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 want to use a database setup script instead of Hibernate’s schema generation. What’s the easiest way to create…