Hibernate SoftDelete annotation
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can use the Hibernate SoftDelete annotation to activate soft deleting for JPA entities. While, as I explained in this article, you can manually implement the soft delete mechanism using the @SQLDelete, @Loader and @Where annotations, it’s definitely much easier to just use the native Hibernate mechanism introduced in Hibernate 6.4 , which you can enable via the @SoftDelete annotation.
How to use symbolic links to move the DB data folder
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can use symbolic links to move the DB data folder. The reason why I needed to move the data folder from the C to the D Windows partition was because the C partition was running out of disk space.
Book Review – Beginning Helidon
Introduction My friend, Dmitry Aleksandrov, has been very generous in giving me a copy of his Helidon book, which he co-authored with Dmitry Kornilov and Daniel Kec. Since I was interested in learning about Helidon, I decided to read this book and see what approach it takes to develop Java applications, as opposed to Spring Boot. The book is called Beginning Helidon, and it’s a very good introduction to this framework.
