When I shared last week's article about implementing the fluent interface pattern on twitter, I got asked about using the builder pattern for your entities. https://twitter.com/bhavikcpatel/status/1163429793616060417 Implementing the builder … [Continue reading] about The Builder Pattern – How to use it with 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 post a comment below. Question: On my tutorial about JPA's … [Continue reading] about Hibernate Tip: Create an EntityGraph with multiple SubGraphs
Fluent interfaces are a popular API design pattern in the Java world. The goal of the pattern is to create APIs that are very easy to read, and that define something similar to a domain-specific language. To achieve that, the API heavily relies on … [Continue reading] about Fluent Entities with Hibernate and JPA
Most developers use enums in their domain models. You can easily map them with Hibernate. They provide a strongly typed way to model an attribute that has one out of a list of defined values. The format of a book is a typical example of such an enum. … [Continue reading] about Enum Mappings with Hibernate – The Complete Guide
Ease of use is one of the most often stated benefits of Spring Data JPA over plain JPA. And as long as your persistence code doesn't get complex and you follow a few simple rules, I agree with that. Spring Data JPA not only integrates JPA in your … [Continue reading] about 5 JPA Features That Are Easier To Use with Spring Data JPA
