Posted on November 15, 2023 by vladmihalcea
How to cascade DELETE with Spring and Hibernate events
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can cascade the DELETE operation for unidirectional associations with Spring Data JPA and Hibernate events. Using Hibernate events to achieve this goal is an alternative to the bulk DELETE statement strategy, as it allows us to cascade the delete operation from a parent entity to its children when we cannot use the CascadeType mechanism.
Posted on December 12, 2018 by vladmihalcea
How to intercept entity changes with Hibernate event listeners
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how the Hibernate event listeners work and how you add your custom listeners to intercept entity changes and replicate them to other database tables. Recently, one of my blog readers asked a very good question on StackOverflow. Since my main goal as a Hibernate Developer Advocate is to help Java developers get the most out of JPA and Hibernate, I decided that this is a good opportunity to talk about the Hibernate event listener mechanism.
