A common misconception when working with Hibernate is that you can only map database tables and don’t use any other database features. That’s not the case, as I want to show you in this post. You can also use lots of other features which allow you to: Map read-only database views Call database functions Execute…
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 do I call a database function in a JPQL query?
The Hibernate team published the first Hibernate 5 release quite a while ago, and since then they introduced a bunch of new features. I explained several of them here on the blog, and it’s about time to have a look at the most popular ones. Based on the search traffic I get from google and…
Facetting is another interesting feature provided by Hibernate Search. It allows you to group your FullTextQuery results in categories. You often see this in online shops which present the search results in different product categories or on websites which categorize their articles by date. This is the 3rd post in my series about Hibernate Search,…
This is the second part of the Full-Text Search with Hibernate Search series. In the first part, I showed you how to add Hibernate Search to your project and to perform a very basic full-text query which returned all entities which contained a set of words. This query already returned a much better result than…
