The hibernate-types open-source project is born

Introduction Recently, I got a very interesting request from one of my readers. Since I’ve been providing many custom types to support JSON, ARRAY, or nullable Character types, I decided to start a new open-source project to make it easier for you to get these extra Hibernate Types.

How to customize an entity association JOIN ON clause with Hibernate @JoinFormula

Introduction As I explained in this previous article, you can map calculated properties using Hibernate @Formula, and the value is generated at query time. In this post, you’ll see how you can use a custom SQL fragment to customize the JOIN relationship between two entities, or an entity and a collection of embeddable types.