The best way to lazy load entity attributes using JPA and Hibernate
Introduction When fetching an entity, all attributes are going to be loaded as well. This is because every entity attribute is implicitly marked with the @Basic annotation whose default fetch policy is FetchType.EAGER. However, the attribute fetch strategy can be set to FetchType.LAZY, in which case the entity attribute is loaded with a secondary select statement upon being accessed for the first time. This configuration alone is not sufficient because Hibernate requires bytecode instrumentation to intercept the attribute access request and issue the secondary select statement on demand.
Fluent API entity building with JPA and Hibernate
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can build an entity in a fluent style API fashion when using JPA and Hibernate. The JHipster development team wants to expose a Fluent Interface entity building methods for their JPA entities, so they asked me if this is going to work with JPA and Hibernate. While JPA is rather strict about entity getters and setter, Hibernate is more lenient in this regard.
How to implement equals and hashCode using the JPA entity identifier (Primary Key)
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.
