Vlad Mihalcea

How to lazy load entity properties with Hibernate

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

One of my readers bumped into the JSON mapping post and asked me if we can fetch the JSON properties lazily. This post demonstrates how easily this can be done when using Hibernate as a JPA provider.

As I previously explained, EAGER fetching is a code smell and loading associations eagerly is very detriment to application performance. However, it’s not just associations that we must be careful about. Basic entity properties may also cause performance issues as well. In this post, I’m going to show you how you can fetch entity properties lazily.

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14 High-Performance Java Persistence Tips

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to show you various high-performance Java Persistence optimization tips that will help you get the most out of your data access layer.

A high-performance data access layer requires a lot of knowledge about database internals, JDBC, JPA, Hibernate, and this post summarizes some of the most important techniques you can use to optimize your enterprise application.

1. SQL statement logging

If you’re using a framework that generates statements on your behalf, you should always validate the effectiveness and efficiency of each executed statement. A testing-time assertion mechanism is even better because you can catch N+1 query problems even before you commit your code.

2. Connection management

Database connections are expensive, therefore you should always use a connection pooling mechanism.

Because the number of connections is given by the capabilities of the underlying database cluster, you need to release connections as fast as possible.

In performance tuning, you always have to measure, and setting the right pool size is no different. A tool like FlexyPool can help you find the right size even after you deployed your application into production.

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How to map JSON objects using generic Hibernate Types

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, we are going to see how you can map a JSON column to a JPA entity attribute using the Hypersistence Utils open-source project.

While you can create your own custom Hibernate Types, for mapping JSON column types on Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, you don’t need to implement your own Hibernate Type since the Hypersistence Utils project already offers this functionality.

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High-Performance Java Persistence – Part Two

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Another milestone has been reached

The second part of High-Performance Java Persistence book is out. It’s been almost a year since I started writing this book, and seven months since I published the first part.

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How to implement a custom String-based sequence identifier generator with Hibernate

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

One of my blog readers bumped into the assigned generator with a sequence or an identity column post and wondered if it was possible to generate String-based identifiers instead.

I accepted the challenge and answered his question on StackOverflow. However, this post is going to explain this topic in greater detail, so there we go.

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How to implement equals and hashCode using the JPA entity identifier (Primary Key)

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

As previously explained, using the JPA entity business key for equals and hashCode is always the best choice. However, not all entities feature a unique business key, so we need to use another database column that is also unique as the primary key.

But using the entity identifier for equality is very challenging, and this post is going to show you how you can use it without issues.

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The Open Session In View Anti-Pattern

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

Open Session in View is an Anti-Pattern, and this post is going to demonstrate why it is so. First of all, let’s start with the Wikipedia definition of an Anti-Pattern:

An anti-pattern (or antipattern) is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.

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How to call PostgreSQL functions (stored procedures) with JPA and Hibernate

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

This article is part of a series of posts related to calling various relational database systems stored procedures and database functions from Hibernate. The reason for writing this down is because there are many peculiarities related to the underlying JDBC driver support and not every JPA or Hibernate feature is supported on every relational database.

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High-Performance Java Persistence – Chapter 16 – Caching

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Part 2, Chapter 16

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 enterprise caching works, from database internal buffers, to application-level caching, and the second-level cache offered by Hibernate.

16. Caching
16.1 Caching flavors
16.2 Cache synchronization strategies
16.2.1 Cache-aside
16.2.2 Read-through
16.2.3 Write-invalidate
16.2.4 Write-through
16.2.5 Write-behind
16.3 Database caching
16.4 Application-level caching
16.4.1 Entity aggregates
16.4.2 Distributed key/value stores
16.4.3 Cache synchronization patterns
16.4.4 Synchronous updates
16.4.5 Asynchronous updates
16.4.5.1 Change data capture
16.5 Second-level caching
16.5.1 Enabling the second-level cache
16.5.2 Entity cache loading flow
16.5.3 Entity cache entry
16.5.3.1 Entity reference cache store
16.5.4 Collection cache entry
16.5.5 Query cache entry
16.5.6 Cache concurrency strategies
16.5.6.1 READ_ONLY
16.5.6.1.1 Inserting READ_ONLY cache entries
16.5.6.1.2 Updating READ_ONLY cache entries
16.5.6.1.3 Deleting READ_ONLY cache entries
16.5.6.2 NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE
16.5.6.2.1 Inserting NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE cache entries
16.5.6.2.2 Updating NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE cache entries
16.5.6.2.3 Risk of inconsistencies
16.5.6.2.4 Deleting NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE cache entries
16.5.6.3 READ_WRITE
16.5.6.3.1 Inserting READ_WRITE cache entries
16.5.6.3.2 Updating READ_WRITE cache entries
16.5.6.3.3 Deleting READ_WRITE cache entries
16.5.6.3.4 Soft locking concurrency control
16.5.6.4 TRANSACTIONAL
16.5.6.4.1 XA_Strict mode
16.5.6.4.2 XA mode
16.5.6.4.3 Inserting TRANSACTIONAL cache entries
16.5.6.4.4 Updating TRANSACTIONAL cache entries
16.5.6.4.5 Deleting TRANSACTIONAL cache entries
16.5.7 Query cache strategy
16.5.7.1 Table space query invalidation
16.5.7.2 Native SQL statement query invalidation

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The best way to log SQL statements with JDBC, JPA or Hibernate

Are you struggling with performance issues in your Spring, Jakarta EE, or Java EE application?

Imagine having a tool that could automatically detect performance issues in your JPA and Hibernate data access layer long before pushing a problematic change into production!

With the widespread adoption of AI agents generating code in a heartbeat, having such a tool that can watch your back and prevent performance issues during development, long before they affect production systems, can save your company a lot of money and make you a hero!

Hypersistence Optimizer is that tool, and it works with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Jakarta EE, Java EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Play Framework.

So, rather than allowing performance issues to annoy your customers, you are better off preventing those issues using Hypersistence Optimizer and enjoying spending your time on the things that you love!

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to show you the best way to log SQL statements when using either JDBC, JPA, or Hibernate.

Whenever you are using a data access framework that auto-generates statements on your behalf, it is mandatory to log all statements to ensure their effectiveness, as well as to assert the possible performance implications.

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