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 … [Continue reading] about How to lazily load non-relational attributes in a portable way
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 … [Continue reading] about Hibernate Tips: Map an Unidirectional One-to-Many Association Without a Junction Table
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: We're using Hibernate in our … [Continue reading] about Hibernate Tips: Get the SQL Connection used by your Hibernate Session
Hibernate 5.3 is available for a little more than 3 months now, and last week, the team released the 3rd maintenance release. So, it's about time to take a closer look at the new version. In addition to more than 100 bug fixes, Hibernate 5.3 … [Continue reading] about 5 Reasons and 101 Bugfixes – Why You Should Use Hibernate 5.3
Updating a database schema is pretty easy if you can take your application offline. You shutdown the application, create a backup of the current database schema, perform all required update operations using tools like Flyway or Liquibase, restart the … [Continue reading] about Update your Database Schema Without Downtime