How does aggressive connection release work in Hibernate
Hibernate connection providers Hibernate needs to operate both in Java EE and stand-alone environments, and the database connectivity configuration can be done either declaratively or programmatically. To accommodate JDBC Driver connections as well as RESOURCE_LOCAL and JTA DataSource configurations, Hibernate defines its own connection factory abstraction, represented by the org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.connections.spi.ConnectionProvider interface.
High-Performance Java Persistence – Chapter 10 – Mapping Types and Identifiers
Part 2, Chapter 10 Every new chapter of my book is released right after it’s being completed, so the reader doesn’t have to wait for the whole part to be finished to get access to new material. Table of content This chapter explains the core mapping elements used by Hibernate and details the basic type and the identifier generators.
I just joined the Hibernate team at RedHat
Hibernate Developer Advocate Today is my first day working as a Developer Advocate for the Hibernate ORM project at RedHat. My job consists in helping the community getting the most out of Hibernate. This is really exciting since I can continue the work that I started when I came out with this blog. If we take the 2015 Java Ecosystem Report issued by Dzone, Hibernate has a 63.9% market share. There are millions of Java developers depending on a relatively small team for delivering their favorite JPA implementation. So, this job carries… Read More
How to bootstrap Hibernate without the persistence.xml file
Why? JPA relies heavily on the persistence.xml configuration file, and the standard API to bootstrap a JPA provider programmatically requires too much boilerplate code. While in a typical enterprise application, providing a persistence.xml file is not really an issue, this requirement doesn’t get along with unit testing, especially when tests are completely isolated and they need to validate different aspects of JPA or Hibernate. That was an issue that I bumped into when writing test cases for the High-Performance Java Persistence book. All my tests need to be isolated, and not all… Read More
High-Performance Java Persistence – Chapter 9 – Hibernate Connection Management
Part 2, Chapter 9 Every new chapter of my book is released right after it’s being completed, so the reader doesn’t have to wait for the whole part to be finished to get access to new material. Table of content This chapter explains how to handle connections in Hibernate and how to monitor their usage as well as the statement that gets automatically generated, and the table of contents looks like this:
High-Performance Java Persistence – Chapter 8 – Why JPA and Hibernate matter
Second part, Chapter 8 Now that the first part of my book is published, it’s time to focus on the second part, which covers both JPA and Hibernate. From now on, every new chapter is going to be released right after it’s completed, so the reader doesn’t have to wait for the whole part to be finished to get access to new chapters. Table of content This chapter aims to remind the reader why Hibernate has its place in high-performance data access, and the table of contents looks like this:
High-Performance Java Persistence – Part One
The journey Four months, one week and two days and 114 pages; that’s how much it took to write the first part of the High-Performance Java Persistence book. As previously stated, the book is developed in an Agile fashion. Each part represents a milestone, which is accompanied by a release. This way, the readers can get access to the book content prior to finishing the whole book (which might take a year or so).
A beginner’s guide to Read and Write Skew phenomena
Introduction In my article about ACID and database transactions, I introduced the three phenomena described by the SQL standard: dirty read non-repeatable read phantom read While these are good to differentiate the four isolation levels (Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeatable Read and Serializable), in reality, there are more phenomena to take into consideration as well. The 1995 paper (A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels) introduces the other phenomena that are omitted from the standard specification. In my High-Performance Java Persistence book, I decided to insist on the Transaction chapter as it… Read More
Two years of blogging
Keep on writing It’s been two years since I started this blog and so it’s time to draw a line and see how it went since last year. Page Views In these two years, I got 500.000 page views and the last month was the first one to break the 50.000 views threshold.
How does the MySQL JDBC driver handle prepared statements
Prepared statement types While researching for the Statement Caching chapter in my High-Performance Java Persistence book, I got the chance to compare how Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL handle prepare statements. Thanks to Jess Balint (MySQL JDBC driver contributor), who gave a wonderful answer on StackOverflow, I managed to get a better understanding of how MySQL handles prepared statements from a database performance point of view.
